Story highlights Hearse is carrying half a ton of caviar

Beluga caviar can go for $1,500 a kilogram

(CNN) Police in Russia's Far East suspected something was fishy right from the start.

After all, why would a hearse be racing through the countryside?

"The van's driver explained to the police patrol he was hurrying to deliver the body of a woman from Komsomolsk-on-Amur to Khabarovsk," police spokeswoman Yelena Alekseyeva, told Russia's TASS news agency

Not convinced, police searched the hearse. There was no body, but authorities found something else entirely: more than half a ton of caviar (500 kilograms) packed inside a coffin.

The men with the funeral home were hardly working for scale.

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