On September 10, a second seizure of U.S. currency estimated at $11.2 million also was made at the Buenaventura port.
• On September 11, a shipment of $11 million was discovered hidden inside two shipping containers at the Port of Manzanillo.
• On September 14, ICE special agents, along with Colombian authorities, discovered three additional shipping containers in Buenaventura containing about $5 million in $100 and $50 bills. These shipping containers also originated in Manzanillo.
On September 18, authorities seized $2.15 million in $100 bills concealed inside two containers aboard a vessel that arrived in Manzanillo.
“This seizure represents a bad day for organized crime,” ICE Director John Morton said at a Monday news conference in Washington. “Forty-one million dollars is not a rounding error. The loss of that kind of money hurts.”