Drug Traffickers Use Chemical Masking to Evade Detection in International Shipments
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A bagel-shaped object. The form is there, the soul isn't.
Summary
The article describes how drug traffickers are successfully evading detection by using sophisticated chemical masking techniques to hide cocaine in legitimate shipments like passion-fruit pulp. A specific case from Peru involved nine tonnes of cocaine that passed chemical tests at Callao port and was only discovered after reaching Belgium. The article highlights that new decentralized trafficking networks are proving more resilient than traditional hierarchical criminal organizations.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledTHERE WAS nothing obviously amiss, even when inspectors began opening the tubs of passion-fruit pulp about to be shipped out of Callao port in Peru.
A chemical test for illicit substances did not produce a red flag. Yet mixed into the sticky gloop was roughly nine tonnes of cocaine.
It had been chemically masked to thwart testing kits, explains General Nilton Santos Villalta, the head of Peru's anti-narcotics police.
New decentralised networks are even harder to disrupt than the hierarchical gangs they have replaced.
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