More than a ton of cocaine with an estimated value of nearly 135 million euros was seized in the Russian port of Saint Petersburg during the inspection of bags of coffee coming from Belgium, customs announced on Wednesday. local.
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More than 1,200 kilos of the drug whose value on the black market exceeds 13 billion rubles (around 135 million euros at the current rate) were seized at the large port of Saint Petersburg
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The blocks of cocaine were hidden in bags of coffee coming from Antwerp, Belgium, according to the same source.
Open investigation
An investigation into large-scale drug trafficking has been opened, the press release added.
This is the second seizure of this magnitude in St. Petersburg in less than a month.
At the beginning of January, more than a ton of cocaine had already been discovered in a container transported to Russia from Nicaragua, according to the Russian customs service.