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The head of the PCM highlighted the joint work of the PNP, the Armed Forces and the Prosecutors Office against this illegal activity that depredates the environment.Law enforcement operations against illegal mining recorded a new achievement after carrying out the interdiction on Thursday, August 1, in the Colorado district of the province of Manu (Madre de Dios), of materials dedicated to this illicit activity valued at 7.6 millions of suns.
This blow against illegal mining is the result of the coordinated work of the Police, the Armed Forces and the Prosecutors Office. This shows that the State as a whole must continue working together to eradicate this illegal practice and protect our environment, said the president of the Council of Ministers, Gustavo Adrianzen.
This operation involved the participation of 12 troops from the Anti-Illegal Mining Division of the National Police, 10 from the Peruvian Army, and a prosecutor from the Provincial Corporate Prosecutors Office Specialized in Environmental Matters of Madre de Dios.
Among the interdicted assets, a tracked excavator, a front loader, a dump truck, a 4x4 truck, 1,400 meters of electrical cable, 1,550 gallons of diesel fuel, 400 kilos of wire, among others, stand out.
This intervention is in addition to the two operations deployed last June in the La Pampa area, which the head of the Ministerial Cabinet supervised during his visit to Madre de Dios, and which allowed the destruction of 7 dredgers and implements valued at more than 4.2 million soles .
It should be noted that the Permanent multisectoral Commission with the aim of monitoring mining formalization and actions aimed at the eradication of illegal mining and the recovery of the environment, dependent on the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM) , works on updating the strategy to combat illegal mining in the country, with a comprehensive vision and taking into account that this crime generates various related crimes.
