The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) has indicated that the vessel that was caught by the Spanish authorities with one ton of cocaine just a few weeks ago, left the shores of Guyana without the drugs, which were subsequently loaded at sea.
CANU offered this information in a press release on the matter in which a ton of cocaine was found on the Guyanese fishing vessel “Matthieu”.
“We can say without fear of contradiction by our international partners that Guyana played an integral part in this operation and continues to be part of the ongoing investigation since it involved a trans-Atlantic drug trafficking network,” the release said. “While the vessel ‘Matthieu’ is Guyana registered and did not depart from Guyana without getting the necessary clearance from MARAD, there is strong intelligence that the vessel was loaded at sea coupled with the fact that when intercepted, there was equipment on deck that was used in the transfer of heavy cargo while at sea, as seen in other seizures.”
