Turkey still waits for Colombia to provide information about massive cocaine bust

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Colombia has not yet answered Turkey's request for information concerning a massive cocaine stash seized in a Turkey-bound ship last year, Ankara has announced.

"Our close cooperation with Colombia's narcotics unit continues. However, our request for legal cooperation has not yet been answered by Colombia's judicial authorities," the General Directorate of Security said on Twitter yesterday (October 10).

In June 2020, nearly five tons of cocaine were seized in a ship in Colombia's Buenaventura port.

Cocaine smuggling between Colombia and Turkey was at the center of the allegations of exiled mob boss Sedat Peker, whose YouTube videos shook the country in May.

In the seventh episode of his online confessions on May 23, Peker accused former and incumbent government officials to organize cocaine smuggling between Colombia, Venezuela and Turkey.

After Peker's claims, hundreds of kilograms of cocaine were seized in Turkey's ports on multiple occasions. The recipients of the packages have not been disclosed by the authorities.

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"Penal law takes action not on rumors but on evidence," the Security Directorate said in its statement.

"Judicial investigations are being carried out by our public prosecutors. Sharing the content and allegations in the investigations with unauthorized people without a criminal case opened would be against the principles of 'protection of privacy' and 'violation of the confidentiality of an investigation'."

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