Staff in Czech supermarkets find half tonne of cocaine in banana boxes
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Supermarket staff in the Czech cities of Jicin and Rychnov found bars of cocaine inside banana boxes (above).
PHOTO: CZECH REPUBLIC POLICE
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PRAGUE (AFP) - Supermarket staff in two Czech cities found bars of cocaine inside banana boxes on Friday (June 10), police said as media put the total amount at half a tonne.
Czech public TV said the boxes that had been shipped over from Colombia contained half a tonne of cocaine in total.
"Detectives found out that goods from the same batch were also distributed to several other places," police said in a tweet, adding they were searching these places.
Public TV added that the drugs, found in the Czech cities of Jicin and Rychnov nad Kneznou, would be worth 1.5 billion koruna (S$88 million) on the black market.
Police said the national drug squad was probing the haul and that they would ask for international cooperation.
