French Coca-Cola workers find huge cocaine stash in juice delivery

Coca-Cola workers found a huge stash of cocaine when they opened a delivery of fruit juice concentrate from Costa Rica at their factory in southern France.

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Published : 31 August 2016, 06:41 PM
Updated : 31 August 2016, 06:46 PM

Local newspaper Var-Matin said the haul weighed 370 kg with a potential street value of around 50 million euros. Those figures could not be confirmed by Coca-Cola and the local prosecutor could not be reached for comment.

"You can well imagine the surprise," said a spokesman for Coca-Cola, adding that the workers alerted police and were ruled out as potential suspects.

The stash was hidden inside a container of juice that was opened on arrival at the factory in the town of Signes on Aug 26.