Four jailed for plot to smuggle cocaine through Russia’s Argentine embassy

Plan foiled after investigators replace drugs worth $62m with flour

A Russian court has sentenced four men to lengthy jail terms for trying to smuggle nearly 400kg (880lb) of cocaine in suitcases from the Russian embassy in Argentina.

Argentine authorities seized the cocaine, worth $62m (45.5m), hidden in suitcases in the Russian embassy school in 2018.