ST. PETERSBURG, December 22. /TASS/. Officers from the Russian Federal Customs Service’s northwestern directorate, working jointly with the St. Petersburg-Leningrad Region branch of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), uncovered more than 100 kilograms of cocaine concealed in containers holding bananas at the St. Petersburg marine cargo port, the customs authority told reporters.

"Officers of the Baltic and Northwestern Customs jointly with the Economic Security Service of the FSB’s office for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region thwarted two instances of trafficking of cocaine weighing a total of over 100 kilograms," the customs service said.

Russia-bound containers with bananas that arrived from Belgium were found to contain 100 identical briquettes wrapped in brown-colored polymer film shoved into the hollowed-out drawers of a refrigerator. An analysis showed that the seized substance was cocaine.

Two criminal probes are currently underway.