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400 kilos of cocaine found in Russian embassy in Argentina

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFP) — 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 announced Thursday. Patricia Bullrich told a press conference that the drugs discovered in an annex of the embassy had a street value of around 50 million euros (about $62 million). “A gang of narco-criminals was trying to use the diplomatic courier service of […]