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Cocaine shipment worth over $120 million seized at St. Petersburg port — Meduza [1]

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Date: 2024-01-10  

Russian Federal Customs Service employees and Federal Security Service (FSB) officers seized a large cocaine shipment at St. Petersburg’s Great Port, reports the Federal Customs Service's press office.

The cocaine, packaged into 1,000 bricks and weighing over a ton, was found in a container that arrived from Nicaragua.

The estimated black-market value of the seized shipment is 11 billion rubles (over $120 million).

Authorities have opened a criminal case into the incident.

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