Employees at a worth minimize grocery retailer chain in Germany found 95 kgs (210 further kilos) of drug stowed away inside cages of bananas, cops launched on Monday.
The medicines are reported to have a highway value of round EUR7 million ($7.8 million).
Police didn’t name the grocery retailer involved, nonetheless claimed the medicines confirmed up in quite a few cities across the western state of North-Rhine Westphalia
How did drug wind up amongst bananas?
Bricks of drug had been initially discovered by staff at 2 of the worth minimize chain’s retailers in Mönchengladbach on September 10.
Later that day, drug was likewise found on the chain’s retailers within the close-by cities of Duisburg, Krefeld, Viersen, Heinsberg and Neuss.
“The investigators are working on the assumption that the food discounter was not the correct recipient for the delivery, but received the goods in error,” Mönchengladbach cops claimed in a declaration.
Police assume the supply got here from South America and got here to the Belgian port of Antwerp previous to being carried to the grocery retailer’s circulation stockroom in Germany.
zc/nm (dpa, AFP)
