Costa Rican Authorities Take Down Drug Trafficking Ring that Distributed to Central America and Mexico

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An investigation that began in January 2017 carried out by the Drug Control Police (PCD) of the Ministry of Public Security allowed the capture of members of a criminal structure that was dedicated to the transportation of drugs in large quantities from Costa Rica to Central America and Mexico.
The criminal group would also move large amounts of money product of the operation. PCD searched a total of sixteen locations in different areas of the country, 10 in Guanacaste (Liberia and Santa Cruz) 4 in San Jose (Desamparados, Coronado, Perez Zeledon), 1 in Alajuela and 1 in Quepos, Puntarenas.
The group is formed by twelve members, the leader is identified with the last name Mata, and his right hand is a man of last name Rivera; these two created a corporation under the name TRACMATA which supposedly has commercial activity construction and the transportation of materials among others, it was used to launder the money product of the illegal activities.

A man of last name Arriola, Costa Rican and 36 years-old who worked at the Municipality of Liberia in Guanacaste is also related to the gang and would intervene to help award tenders and projects to TRACMATA and charged large sums of money for this.
Arriola also contributed to the drug trafficking operation in different ways.
Since the beginning of the investigation the police had already taken down some of the operations of the group starting with a case in Bagaces in Guanacaste where they searched a property and seized half a ton of cocaine and found 5 large containers filled with airplane fuel as well as firearms, radios, cell phones.
In another operation in March this year in Puntarenas they confiscated vehicles, cash and arrested two Costa Rican men.
 

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