The Russian authorities reported on Wednesday that they detained 820 kilograms of cocaine, which was hidden under the boxes with imported bananas. According to them, it was the greatest intervention on drugs from Latin America in the country this year, writes TASR based on AFP report.
Cocaine was detained by the Russian Customs Administration in cooperation with the FSB secret service. According to them is his value of more than 12 billion rubles (approximately EUR 132 million). Drug packages were disguised in briquettes with the label of the French luxury fashion brand and found them hidden under bananas.
After a warning of “foreign colleagues on the intention of the South American criminal group, they were intervented to create a smuggling channel for cocaine supplies to Russia”. The Customs Administration added that the investigation in connection with drug trafficking has been initiated for which there is a maximum sentence of life imprisonment in Russia.
According to Izvestija, smuggling of cocaine into Russia’s territory has expanded significantly over the past two years. Drug traders are increasingly using the country as a transit center, partly also due to the fact that the Ukrainian port city of Odessa is inaccessible for the continuing war between Moscow and Kiev. He added the diary.
