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| FSB publishes video of arrest of foreigners with a ton of cocaine in Leningrad Oblast | |
| 2024-11-09 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The Federal Security Service (FSB) has released a video of the arrest of drug couriers who were attempting to smuggle a ton of cocaine through Russia to the EU. The agency's employees carried out the seizure operation at night. The footage shows security forces running into an empty hangar in the Leningrad Region, where a truck specially equipped for transporting drugs is parked. "FSB! Down! On the floor," the FSB officers commanded the two men in the back of the car. Then the security officer repeated his command in English.
The drug couriers got out of the truck with their hands raised and were handcuffed. The video also shows hundreds of briquettes of the drug, packaged in 1 kg quantities and packed in branded wrappers with stickers from the Latin American manufacturer. As reported by the Regnum news agency, earlier on November 8, the FSB reported the arrest of members of a criminal group who were attempting to transport more than a ton of Latin American cocaine through Russian territory to the EU countries. The cost of the batch of prohibited substances on the black market exceeds 3.5 billion rubles. The department reported that in October, a truck en route to the Russian Federation was found on the Russian-Latvian section of the state border, in which an empty high-tech cache was found. It was placed under surveillance. This allowed the criminals to be caught red-handed. They turned out to be two citizens of one of the Balkan countries. They were transferring 984 briquettes of cocaine to the cache of the car, intending to export them to one of the EU countries. It is also known that foreigners tried to sell 20 kg of cocaine in Russia. When attempting to take the goods from a hiding place in a forest belt of the Gatchina district of the Leningrad region, security forces also detained an Estonian citizen and two Russians. A criminal case on illegal drug trafficking has been opened. | |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 Surely that’s not the international language of crime Perhaps the international language of videos. packed in branded wrappers with stickers from the Latin American manufacturer. Why Latin cocaine to Europe thru Russia? Because as you say Mali is in chaos with the French retreat? Or is it from Mexico's newest trading partner, China? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-11-09 13:39 |