A large consignment of cocaine was detained in the Odessa region. Narcotic briquettes, with a total gross weight of almost 57 kg, were found in a container from Ecuador, according to the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

A special operation to suppress drug smuggling was carried out by operational officers of the Southern Regional Directorate of the State Border Service, together with a special unit and investigators of the SBU in the Odessa region, the Odessa customs of the State Customs Service with the force support of the border special unit DOZOR.

" Odessa. The drug was hidden in the ventilation hatches of the container with bananas, which arrived at the Yuzhny seaport. The cost of this batch at black market prices is about US $ 10 million.. Urgent investigative actions are now continuing, "