PANAMA CITY: Panama’s Ministry of Public Security said on Saturday (December 24) that it had seized drug records in 2022. Panama is suffering from drug trafficking to the United States and Europe through its territory. I’m in
So far this year, the Central American country has seized 126.5 tonnes of drugs, mostly cocaine, setting a record for the second year in a row.
“Panama is a transit country for drugs and what we are doing is a containment operation,” Public Security Minister Juan Manuel Pino told reporters this week.
Of the total, 23 tons were found in Atlantic coast containers, with destinations in the United States and Europe.
Drugs were seized in over 471 operations against drug trafficking. This included the arrest of 619 of him, including 415 Panamanians and 204 of his from other countries.
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