The National Commission for the Study and Prevention of Drug-Related Crimes (CONAPRED), will receive1.1 million dollars from the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), corresponding to 30% of the confiscations carried out during the periods 2018 to June 2019 and from July 2019, until November 2021, in compliance with Law 57 of September 17, 2013.

The Attorney General of the Nation and President of the National Commission for the Study and Prevention of Drug-Related Crimes (CONAPRED), Javier Enrique Caraballo Salazar, received from the Minister of Economy and Finance, Héctor Alexander, a symbolic check for this sum. for the sum of B/. 11,135,195.70.

Caraballo said that the delivery of these funds represents good collaboration and extraordinary inter-institutional coordination between the Public Ministry and the Ministry of Economy and Finance. “This will allow CONAPRED to further support Non-Governmental Organizations dedicated to human care and rehabilitation programs and develop programs for the benefit of the prevention, repression and rehabilitation of drug-related crimes.

This is an important sum, said the Prosecutor, which symbolizes the effort made by prosecutors and security forces and other collaborators in the development of operations that lead to the seizure of drug trafficking assets

He explained that this money will be essential in the treatment of people with addictions, “that our society needs so much and that money, a product of illicit activities, reverts to the benefit of the population.”

Nigma Muñoz, Administrative Secretary of the Attorney General’s Office; Jorge Almengor, Deputy Minister of Finance; Orcila de Constable, general secretary of the MEF and Rodolfo Shaeik, director of Apprehended Property of the MEF, were present at the event.