Berlin – The Berlin-Brandenburg customs investigation office has released figures on the cocaine discovery at Lidl. Accordingly, 223 kilograms of cocaine were found in the banana boxes in the eleven Lidl branches!
As Christian Lanninger, spokesman for the customs investigation office, told “MAZ”, the amount of white powder has an estimated sales value of 10 to 15 million euros. At a gram price of 50 to 80 euros.
The cocaine was in Brandenburg found in 104 boxes spread across four branches. One kilo of coke per box. In the 119 boxes, which were distributed across seven branches in Berlin, there was also a sealed kilo pack. Hidden between the bananas.
An investigator carries one of the banana boxes containing cocaine from the Lidl supermarket in Schönefeld Photo: Jörg Bergmann
Which: Although the spokesman for the customs investigation office released the figures for the discovery, the police in Brandenburg did not want to give any specific figures when asked by BILD.
Beate Kardels, spokeswoman for the Brandenburg police headquarters, only spoke of cocaine “in the low three-digit kilogram range” that was found. The spokeswoman also did not want to say in which branches in Berlin and Brandenburg the cocaine was found.
BILD had it police On Thursday, in any case, when the drugs were being transported to the Warmensteinacher Strasse branches Berlin-Marienfelde and in Schönefeld (Brandenburg) on Schönefelder Chaussee.
The 223 kilograms of cocaine are to be burned on Friday.
A joint drug investigation group from the state criminal investigation offices in Brandenburg and Berlin as well as the customs investigation office is now continuing to work on the case.