PhotoPINAMAR, Argentina — A former Russian diplomatic worker and an Argentine police officer were among six people arrested on Thursday after a 14-month investigation triggered by the discovery of hundreds of pounds of cocaine at the Russian Embassy in Buenos Aires. “We have dismantled an international cocaine trafficking organization operating between Argentina, Russia and Germany,” Patricia Bullrich, Argentina’s minister of security, said in a televised news conference. She said the seizure of 389 kilograms of cocaine, more than 850 pounds, was made at a school on the grounds of the embassy in December 2016, leading to an investigation by Argentine border guards, the Buenos Aires police and the Russian Interior Ministry. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyMs. Bullrich said Mr. Koronelli gave Argentine border guards a key to enter the school through a side door. They returned to the embassy an hour or so later with the bags, which were also fitted with tracking devices, she said.

Source: New York Times February 23, 2018 02:10 UTC