More than 669,000 kilos of food have been confiscated by the authorities of Mérida from smuggling gangs, engaged in the extraction of products to Colombia, as reported on Thursday the Commander of the Integral Defense Operating Zone (ZODI), General César Wilfredo Méndez López .
The spokesman of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) and the political protector of the Andean entity, Jehyson Guzmán, offered a balance of the security actions carried out until the 27th week of 2018.
“These results are the result of joint deployment by security and prevention institutions in Mérida, following the guidance of President Nicolás Maduro, to combat crime and economic warfare, simultaneously”, said Guzmán on Thursday in the headquarters command of the Bolivarian National Guard of the Alberto Adriani municipality.
There they accounted for 293,600 kilos of strategic materials such as steel and copper, seized; of laptop computers of the Canaima Educational program, recovered, and 6 transport units, retained for smuggling of fuel.
“These are actions aimed at those who take advantage of the favorable conditions of our country, to convert social benefits into businesses and divert them through extraction smuggling”, said the delegate protector for Merida.
Deployment in the state against speculation and contraband also throws the positive installation of multidisciplinary committees of control and auditing in municipal markets of the Libertador, Campo Elías and Alberto Adriani municipalities of that state.
