MOSCOW, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Friday it seized 1,515 kg of cocaine from Ecuador at a port in St. Petersburg.
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. ■