Russia seizes ton of EU-bound cocaine (VIDEO) 

FSB agents have intercepted a major shipment of the drug near the Latvian border

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has announced that it has seized over a ton of cocaine and has disrupted the drug supply route from Latin America to the EU via Russia. The traffickers were apprehended near the Latvian border, the agency said.  

Last month, FSB agents spotted a suspicious truck in Leningrad Region and placed it under surveillance.