$21m cocaine stash found in Aldi bananas

[HighwayStar]

$21m cocaine stash found in Aldi bananas

Date May 6, 2015 - 1:12AM
AFP

Aldi locations in Berlin have for the second time in two years received cocaine in banana crates from Colombia. Photo: Bradley Kanaris

Berlin: More than 15 million euros ($21 million) worth of cocaine has turned up in boxes of bananas delivered to Aldi supermarkets, police say.

Staff working at 14 of the discount supermarkets in and around Berlin reported the stashes of narcotics tucked in the produce deliveries from Colombia, which police believe ended up at the stores by accident on Monday.

"Apparently there was a logistical mistake somewhere along the line," police spokesman Stefan Redlich told AFP, adding that investigators were now trying to determine their intended destination.

He said the 386kg shipment was the biggest single cocaine find in the history of the German capital.

In a similar case in January 2014, Berlin supermarket workers discovered 140kg of the drug worth around six million euros also hidden in crates of bananas.