Police have seized nearly 400 kilos of cocaine from the Russian embassy in Buenos Aires and arrested several members of a drug trafficking gang, Argentina’s Security Minister Patricia Bullrich announced on Thursday. Bullrich told a press conference that the drugs discovered in an annex of the embassy had a street value of around $50 million. “A gang of narco-criminals was trying to use the diplomatic courier service of the Russian embassy” to ship the drugs to Europe, she said. “The cocaine was replaced by flour and monitoring devices were placed to monitor delivery” of the 16 bags of the drug, Bullrich said. The minister said Russian security service agents “came to Argentina on three occasions to assist in the investigation” that took more than a year.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 23, 2018 00:33 UTC