Unit­ed States fed­er­al au­thor­i­ties have an­nounced the seizure of more than 700 pounds of co­caine at the Port of Nor­folk, Vir­gina, USA, the As­so­ci­at­ed Press has re­port­ed.

732 pounds of the drug were seized on Dec. 20, with a street val­ue of up to $100 mil­lion and a whole­sale val­ue of about $12 mil­lion.

The U.S. Cus­toms and Bor­der Pro­tec­tion said Thurs­day that the co­caine was hid­den in cans of fruit juice in­side a 20-foot ship­ping con­tain­er that orig­i­nat­ed from Trinidad and To­ba­go.

In re­sponse to the an­nounce­ment, SM Jaleel and Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed post­ed a state­ment on their web­site dis­tanc­ing them­selves from the il­le­gal drug find.

"It has be­come com­mon knowl­edge that the crim­i­nals in­volved in drug traf­fick­ing have been us­ing mech­a­nisms to trans­port co­caine, in­clu­sive of items such as fruit, car parts, lum­ber, hard­ware and var­i­ous oth­ers. It now ap­pears that some­one may be try­ing to uti­lize our com­pa­ny's prod­uct in this re­gard," the SM Jaleel state­ment said.

"We too have on­ly just been re­cent­ly in­formed of the sit­u­a­tion that oc­curred al­most a month ago on De­cem­ber 20, 2013, re­gard­ing the use of our TJC or­ange and grape­fruit flavoured juice tins in the smug­gling of co­caine in to the Unit­ed States and have, to date, not been con­tact­ed by the rel­e­vant US au­thor­i­ties in con­nec­tion with this mat­ter.

"At present we have no knowl­edge or ev­i­dence of the de­tails oth­er than the press re­lease from the Unit­ed States. We have al­ready com­menced our own in­ter­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion; how­ev­er, we are not yet in a po­si­tion to pro­vide any fur­ther de­tails at this time."