Nespresso factory workers in Switzerland found cocaine amid coffee bean bags, Nestle confirmed.
GENEVA -- Swiss police say an investigation is underway after workers at a Nespresso warehouse in western Switzerland found 500 kilograms of cocaine, with a street value of $50 million, as they unloaded coffee beans that had arrived by train.
Early indications were that the shipment turned up in five containers that had arrived by sea from Brazil before being transferred onto a train, authorities said. On Friday, the European Union's law enforcement agency Europol and the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction reported that cocaine availability in Europe"is probably at an all-time high."Switzerland is not an EU member but is part of the Schengen zone that allows for visa-free travel among many European countries.
It said the largest quantities of cocaine are seized in Belgian, Dutch and Spanish ports, but increasing amounts are turning up at ports elsewhere"suggesting that trafficking groups are extending their activities to ports where cocaine interdiction measures may be perceived as less intensive."
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