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Security
forces in Venezuela have found $550,000 (£343,000) buried near the border with
Colombia, interior ministry spokesman Jorge Galindo said.
The money
was stashed in plastic bags on the shores of river Meta along with a rifle and
1kg (2.2lb) of cocaine.
Officials
have not yet said how the National Guard came across the money.
Venezuela
has arrested several Colombian drug dealers. Colombian guerrilla groups and
drug traffickers often bury cash in remote locations.
Mr Galindo
said the money - in $100 bills - had been stashed into six plastic bags and
buried in a rural part of western Apure state.
In 2003,
Colombian soldiers found about $20m worth of guerrilla drug money buried in the
Colombian jungle.
The
soldiers, who failed to tell the authorities about their find, were charged
with theft. They are still awaiting a verdict.
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