{"id":38795,"date":"2025-07-17T12:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/153-million-of-cocaine-found-hidden-in-banana-shipment-in-russia\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T12:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:02:10","slug":"153-million-of-cocaine-found-hidden-in-banana-shipment-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/153-million-of-cocaine-found-hidden-in-banana-shipment-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"$153 million of cocaine found hidden in banana shipment in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Russia said Wednesday it had seized 1,800 pounds of cocaine hidden under a shipment of bananas, calling it its largest bust of drugs from Latin America this year.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s customs service, working jointly with the FSB security service, said it had uncovered a batch worth &#8220;more than 12 billion rubles ($153 million)&#8221; stashed in banana containers.<\/p>\n<p>The cocaine packages \u2014 disguised in briquettes bearing the label of a French luxury fashion brand \u2014 were discovered in a &#8220;hidden cavity&#8221; under the bananas, it added. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/s\/customs_rf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">post on social media<\/a>, the Federal Customs Service of Russia released images of the cocaine and said service dogs helped sniff out the hidden drugs.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/17\/6a7f5bc1-7f15-4151-bc2f-182779ef426d\/thumbnail\/620x352\/81128c38ed474c6bb7934aed65679199\/cocaine-screenshot-2025-07-16-211537.png#\" alt=\"cocaine-screenshot-2025-07-16-211537.png \" height=\"352\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/17\/6a7f5bc1-7f15-4151-bc2f-182779ef426d\/thumbnail\/620x352\/81128c38ed474c6bb7934aed65679199\/cocaine-screenshot-2025-07-16-211537.png 1x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Russia said Wednesday it had seized 1,800 pounds of cocaine hidden under a shipment of bananas, calling it its largest bust of drugs from Latin America this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Federal Customs Service of Russia<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Customs officials said they carried out the bust after a tip-off from &#8220;foreign colleagues about the intention of a South American criminal group to organize a smuggling channel for cocaine supplies to Russia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It said an investigation had been opened into large-scale drug trafficking, a charge that in Russia carries maximum penalty of life imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has a zero-tolerance policy towards drug use and smuggling, handing heavy sentences to those convicted of trafficking small amounts of narcotics &#8212; including foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>Cocaine smuggling into Russia has surged over the past two years, according to Russia&#8217;s Izvestia newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Drug traffickers are increasingly looking to the country as a transit hub, in part because the Ukrainian port of Odesa has become inaccessible due to the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/ukraine-crisis\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">war in Ukraine<\/a><\/span>, the paper said.<\/p>\n<h2>Cocaine concealed in banana shipments<\/h2>\n<p>Cocaine has been found hidden in banana shipments across the globe in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>In May, employees at a Norwegian fruit distributor discovered a packet of cocaine in a box of bananas, alerting customs officials who found a <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/cocaine-found-banana-shipment-norway\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">stash of 147 kilos<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Last December, authorities in the Dominican Republic confiscated\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/dominican-republic-cocaine-seizure-record-breaking\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">nearly 9.5 tons of cocaine<\/a><\/span>\u00a0from a banana shipment at the country&#8217;s most important seaport.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In August 2024, customs agents seized more than\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/cocaine-3-million-seized-ship-bananas-greece\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">200 pounds of cocaine<\/a><\/span>\u00a0at the port in Greece from a ship carrying the fruit. The month before that, police dogs in Ecuador helped find\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/police-dogs-find-tons-cocaine-hidden-banana-shipment-ecuador\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">more than six tons of cocaine<\/a><\/span>\u00a0hidden in a banana shipment headed to Germany.<\/p>\n<p>In March last year, Bulgarian customs officials confiscated about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bulgaria-ecuador-cocaine-seizure-banana-5ba6abb268a2b6e7df8e339bc45e493c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">170 kilograms of cocaine<\/a>\u00a0from a ship transporting bananas from Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>The month before that, British authorities said they found\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/568-million-cocaine-hidden-bananas-record-drug-seizure-uk-southampton\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">more than 12,500 pounds<\/a><\/span>\u00a0of cocaine hidden in a shipment of the fruit, breaking the 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