Otago Daily Times

Cocaine discovered in coffee shipment

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BERN: Over 500kg of cocaine estimated to be worth more than 50 million Swiss francs ($NZ79 million) has been found in a container of coffee bean bags sent to Nestle’s Nespresso factory in Romont, western Switzerlan­d, the cantonal police said yesterday.

The authoritie­s were informed on Tuesday by Nespresso that staff had found an undefined white substance while unloading bags of coffee beans that had just arrived from Brazil, the police said in a statement.

Analyses showed the substance was cocaine.

‘‘The substance in question did not come into contact with any of our products or production equipment used to make our products,’’ Nespresso said in an emailed statement.

‘‘As a police investigat­ion is under way, we cannot share more details. We want to reassure consumers that all our products are safe to consume,’’ the maker of singleserv­e coffee capsules said. — Reuters

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