September: €50M of cocaine found at Coca-Cola plant
Almost 400kg of cocaine – with a reported street value of about €50M (£42M) – was found at a Coca-Cola factory in southern France on August 26.
The cocaine was found at Coca-Cola’s Signes factory, near Marseille. Staff found sacks of the drug hidden among a delivery of orange juice concentrate from Costa Rica.
Investigators said they were trying to find the specific origin of the cocaine, but had ruled out any involvement from employees at the Coca-Cola plant.
The discovery of 370kg of cocaine – which weighed the equivalent to almost 950 cans of Coca-Cola – was one of the largest finds in France’s history.
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