After the follow-up since February 2013, the authorities executed simultaneous raids in five places located in the interior of the country and the capital, in which, in addition to the captures of six men and a woman, they seized five vehicles, cash and two firearms, the Prosecutor’s Office informed.

‘The use of special investigative techniques led us to be able to charge them with the crimes of drug trafficking, robbery to other criminals) and illicit association to commit a crime,’ told the press Eduardo de la Torre, anti-drugs’ prosecutor.

The police operation was carried out in silence on Wednesday in several places of the capital, the province of West Panama and in the city of Santiago, head province of the Veraguas power plant, without it being transcended to the press usually updated of those facts.

An absolute secrecy around the case prevented the leak of the names of the detainees and what is their link outside borders, but the term Templarios used in the file suggests that they could be linked to the Knights Templar Cartel of Mexico.

A note from the Public Ministry said that during the monitoring of the recently dismantled network, they seized 932 kilograms of drugs, 130,000 dollars in cash of illicit origin, cars and vessels with dual purpose to hide illicit substances and weapons.

When this blow to drug trafficking began to circulate, the Public Ministry also reported the arrest of two people and the confiscation of 102 kilograms of drugs inside a container located in the Caribbean port of Colon and destined for Spain.

Panama is part of the international narcotics trafficking routes, mainly from the region’s first producer, Colombia, and the authorities sometimes warned of links between these organized crime networks and local power structures.