PERU: PERUVIAN AUTHORITIES IN LIMA INCINERATE FOUR AND A HALF TONNES ON DRUGS SEIZED DURING OPERATIONS IN JANUARY

Record ID: 590786

  • Title: PERU: PERUVIAN AUTHORITIES IN LIMA INCINERATE FOUR AND A HALF TONNES ON DRUGS SEIZED DURING OPERATIONS IN JANUARY
  • Date: 30th May 2002
  • Summary: (U1) LIMA, PERU (MAY 30, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GENERAL VIEW OF AREA WHERE DRUGS ARE INCINERATED 0.05 2. VARIOUS OF SACKS OF DRUGS (6 SHOTS) 0.38 3. VARIOUS OF INTERIOR MINISTER FERNANDO ROSPIGLIOSI INSPECTING SACKS OF DRUGS (2 SHOTS) 0.54 4. SV: INVESTIGATORS WEIGHING DRUGS 1.00 5. VARIOUS OF INVESTIGATORS TESTING DRUGS (5 SHOTS) 1.22 6. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) ROSPIGLIOSI SAYING: "We are incinerating a little over four and a half tons of drugs including cocaine, basic cocaine paste, marijuana, opium and opium latex. This is the second incineration we do this year alone." 1.39 7. VARIOUS OF DRUGS BEING INCINERATED (6 SHOTS) 2.19 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 14th June 2002 13:00
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  • Location: LIMA, PERU
  • Country: Peru
  • Reuters ID: LVA8RVU0T7NXA5D0PZHDADVJP9CF
  • Story Text: Peruvian authorities have dealt a severe blow to
    drugtraffickers with the incineration of a little more than 4
    tonnes of drugs.


    Peruvian authorities incinerated on Thursday (May 30)
    a little more than four tonnes of drugs that were seized
    during operations since January.

    The drugs that were incinerated included a little over
    1,670 kilos of basic cocaine paste, 1,489 kilos of marijuana,
    five kilos of opium, 85 kilos of opium latex and 500 grams of
    heroine.

    According to reports, the drugs would have had a total
    street value of close to $41 million in the United States.

    Peruvian authorities also reported that the total amount of
    drugs incinerated was equivalent to 13,548,744 individual
    doses.


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