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Half a Ton of Cocaine Found in Coffee Sacks at Nespresso Plant in Switzerland

Workers at the factory in Switzerland called police after finding white powder in sacks of beans shipped from Brazil.

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More than half a ton of cocaine was found at a Nespresso plant in Switzerland hidden in a shipment of beans from Brazil. Police were called to the coffee-pod plant in Romont after workers found suspicious bags of white powder in a sacks of coffee beans. A search of five shipping containers turned up 500kg of the drug with an estimated street value of more than $50 million. Nespresso, a subsidiary of the Swiss multinational Nestle, said none of its product had been contaminated. “We want to reassure consumers that all our products are safe to consume,” it said in a statement.

Read it at BBC News

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