More than 1.5 tons of cocaine worth 20 billion rubles were imported from Ecuador to Russia under the guise of bananas.

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In the port of St. Petersburg, employees of the Federal Customs Service and the FSB seized more than 1.5 tons of cocaine. This is reported by the press service of the customs service.

The drug was imported to Russia on a ship from Ecuador. He was in a container with a batch of bananas. The total amount of cocaine seized exceeded 20 billion rubles.

A criminal case has been opened on this fact under the article "Smuggling of narcotic drugs on an especially large scale". This crime carries life imprisonment.