19.09.2025, 20:33 92501

Russia seizes 1,515 kg of cocaine

The Russian Federal Security Service said on Friday it seized 1,515 kg of cocaine from Ecuador at a port in St. Petersburg, Xinhua reports.

Following intelligence provided by foreign partners, the FSB and Russian Federal Customs Service discovered 1,500 bricks of cocaine hidden in a banana shipment on a vessel from Ecuador on Aug. 29, said the FSB in a statement.

The confiscated drugs were valued at more than 20 billion rubles (around 240 million U.S. dollars).

A criminal case has been opened over the smuggling of narcotic substances in particularly large quantities.
 

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