Police suspect the seized money came from a Mexican cartel to pay drug Colombian security forces say they have seized a massive cocaine route in the city of port of Cartagena.Sniffer dogs found more than 12 tons of the drug hidden in a cargo of brown sugar in the Mexico destination.
It is believed to belong to one of the most powerful drug traffickers of Colombia, the Rastrojos.
In another development, police in Bogota Airport arrested a national Mexican who arrived with $2. 8 m (￡ 1. 7 m) in his hand luggage.
Verification of a ship bound for Veracruz in the Mexico of sniffer dogs alerted their handlers to the presence of drugs in the hull of the ship.
Laboratory tests revealed that a large consignment of brown sugar had been poisoned with cocaine.
Investigation teams are always test the sugar, which had been piled in 33,450 units of 500 g, to determine the exact concentration of cocaine.
However, officials say already amounts to more than 12 tons of the drug.
It is one of the largest crops of cocaine seized in Colombia over the years.
"New enemy".
Police said that it comes from the region of Valle del Cauca, in the southwest of the Colombia.
The region is the stronghold of the Rastrojos, a gang of drug which exports large quantities of cocaine in Central America and the Mexico.
The Colombian Government recently said bands criminal enemy new his and has promised to devote more resources to the fight against them.
In January, Defence Minister Rodrigo Rivera said magazines Semana drug gangs Colombian news have been increasingly taking control of the networks of drug trafficking of the guerrillas of the Farc in left Colombia.
Also Monday, police officers detained a Mexican national, Jesus Ochoa, who is of Culiacan in Sinaloa State.
Officers said they suspected that the money was payment for shipments of drugs cartel Sinaola to the Mexico.
"This is one of the largest species seized in recent years," the Customs authorities said in a statement.
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