Agents from Colombia's Attorney General's Office and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) took part in the operation, according to the police, which added no arrests were made.

　　"This operation is the result of arduous investigation work by the police units. Through fieldwork and technical assistance, they uncovered the entire shipping process through Buenaventura port," the NP said.

　　"The drugs belonged to the criminal gang 'Los Rastrojos' and was going to be received in Guatemala by an unidentified cartel," the police said, adding the unknown cartel could be "a Mexican network, according to the information shared by the NP Antinarcotics Bureau with its counterparts in Mexico and Guatemala. "

　　According to Colombian authorities, the cache was stashed in a warehouse in Cali, "in 1,406 packages wrapped in plastic."