20 tons of black market smartphones seized at St. Petersburg airport

Russia’s Federal Security Service has seized 20 tons of black market smartphones at the Pulkovo Airport in St Petersburg — an amount retailers said represented up to 30 percent of the city’s total smartphone sales in December, the Vedomosti newspaper reported Friday.

The cargo — including 15,000 Lenovo A560 phones and 35,000 of Apple’s iPhones and iPads — had arrived in Pulkovo from Beijing; the packages were addressed to a St. Petersburg-based company Palmira LLC, Vedomosti said.