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An operation in the Pataz district of La Libertad led to the arrest of eight people in a mine shaft, where weapons, explosives and drugs were also found.The fight against illegal mining in the country registered progress in Madre de Dios, Huanuco and La Libertad, regions in which interdiction operations were carried out that allowed the seizure or destruction of objects and materials valued at more than 19 million soles, and the arrest of 8 people, results of the coordinated work between the National Police of Peru (PNP), the Armed Forces and the Public Prosecutors Office.
Our courageous law enforcement forces, together with brave prosecutors, act in a coordinated manner in different regions of the country to eradicate illegal mining. These multimillion-dollar interdictions demonstrate that, despite their economic power, the law will prevail, said the head of the Ministerial Cabinet.
On August 8, 21 members of the PNP and the Armed Forces They arrived in the district of Huaypetue, in the province of Manu (Madre de Dios), where they found 3 excavators, 12 engines, 5,820 liters of diesel fuel, 3,400 kilos of wire, among other objects, whose total value amounts to 11,607,750 soles.
The operation included the participation of the Environmental Directorate and the Division Against Illegal Mining of the PNP, the Peruvian Army and the Specialized Corporate Prosecutors Office for Environmental Matters of Madre de Dios.
That same day, in the native community of Paucarcito, in the district of Puerto Inca, in the Huanuco province of the same name, 6 PNP officers found 2 crawler excavators, 14 engines, 14 suction pumps and other items valued at 4,579,720 soles, which were used for illegal mining activities.
The intervention included the participation of a representative of the Ucayali Corporate Environmental Prosecutors Office and an explosives specialist from the Navy.
Combating illegal mining in Pataz
On August 9, in the Pueblo Nuevo annex of the Pataz district, in the La Libertad province of the same name, members of the PNP and the Armed Forces arrested 8 people inside a mine shaft and found weapons, explosives, drugs and materials used in illegal mining, whose total value amounts to 2,927,200 soles.
The operation included personnel from the Chagual command post, the Special Operations Directorate, the Anti-Mine Division and the Tactical Actions Subunit of the PNP, and personnel from the Peruvian Army, as well as the representative of the Specialized Transitory Provincial Prosecutors Office for Environmental Matters of La Libertad.
