WORLD : Colombia Returns 100 Seized Planes
BOGOTA, Colombia — The government has returned 100 planes seized during a 6-week-old crackdown on drug traffickers, a Bogota daily said today.
The planes were part of 375 aircraft confiscated since Aug. 19 when President Virgilio Barco Vargas ordered government security forces to hunt down suspected traffickers and seize their property.
The National Drug Council decided that 180 of the aircraft had been used in drug trafficking and turned the planes over to the Colombian air force, the daily El Tiempo said. It said that 100 were returned and that the council is investigating the other 95 aircraft.
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