A fruit and vegetable supplier notices a conspicuous white substance under the bananas in his truck. Officials then secured hundreds of kilograms of cocaine with an estimated market value of 50 million euros.
Investigators in Brandenburg have seized the largest amount of cocaine discovered in the state to date. As the police and customs in Potsdam and Berlin announced, the approximately 660 kilograms of cocaine have an estimated market value of around 50 million euros. A supplier of fruit and vegetables in the community of Groß Kreutz made the find on Friday.
He informed officials that when bananas were being delivered in a truck, blocks of a white substance were found under the fruit. According to the information, a first preliminary test reacted positively to cocaine hydrochloride. The cocaine was shrink-wrapped and packaged in plastic foil, each weighing around one kilogram.
The bananas were used to camouflage the delivery of cocaine. According to previous knowledge, the fruit was transported from Colombia to Germany by container ship and mistakenly delivered to the Brandenburg company. A total of 40 emergency services were involved in the on-site measures. The investigations continued.
