The discovery occurred at a checkpoint that the Police advanced at the Chusacá toll, in the department of Cundinamarca.
Members of the National Police were tremendously surprised after they found four billion pesos in cash on a bus that covered the Bogotá-Cali route.
The vehicle was intercepted this Thursday, August 4, at about 11:00 pm, at the Chusacá toll, in the department of Cundinamarca.
The money was camouflaged inside Styrofoam coolers that had dry ice inside. With this element, they sought to mislead the authorities.
Preliminary information to the Police established that the bus, belonging to the Velotax company, was being monitored, which is why it was detained at that point so that the uniformed officers of the Traffic and Transportation Section could carry out an inspection.
It was at that moment that they found the millionaire sum of money in 12 Styrofoam boxes in the warehouses of the car. The money was in bundles of fifty-thousand-peso bills.
According to information from the National Police, later, a 37-year-old man, who was on the bus and said he was a merchant, claimed to be the owner of the Styrofoam boxes and therefore of the money.
The authorities affirm that the man then tried to bribe the uniformed men, offering them seven hundred million pesos so that they would not carry out the procedure.
Now, the authorities are investigating the origin of the millionaire sum of money. Apparently, they would not rule out that this cash is part of drug gangs in Valle del Cauca.