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Half a ton of cocaine was seized in the Nestle factory?! All hidden in coffee beans shipped from Brazil?

Published: 2026-08-22 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/08/22, According to Reuters on May 5, a worker at the Nestl é factory in Romon, Switzerland, found some confused powder in a container of coffee beans that had just arrived from Brazil and immediately contacted the local police for joint investigation. The analysis of the police forensics department shows that the purity of these unclear color powders is more than 8%.

According to Reuters on May 5, a worker at the Nestl é factory in Romon, Switzerland, found some confused powder in a container of coffee beans that had just arrived from Brazil and immediately contacted the local police for joint investigation.

After the analysis of the police forensics department, the unknown powder was cocaine with a purity of more than 80%. Then the local police searched five containers containing Brazilian coffee beans delivered on the same day, and finally found and seized more than 500kg of cocaine, estimated to be worth more than 50 million Swiss francs (about 330 million yuan).

According to a preliminary investigation by the local police, the five containers containing coffee beans were shipped from Brazil to Romon, Switzerland, and the police have investigated and arrested a number of customs officers. At the same time, relevant investigators said that the entire search operation was carried out in an isolated area set up by the factory to prevent cocaine from entering the production line.

Nestle also said in an email statement: "this time the coffee beans related to the incident will not come into contact with any products in the factory or any production equipment." At present, the Swiss police are further investigating, and the company is unable to disclose more details. But we [Nestle] will assure consumers that the products produced by the factory are safe to eat. "

Incidents like this are more likely to be caused by drug gangs loading drugs in the wrong containers and then coincidentally in containers destined for Nestle coffee beans. It was not an online report that the police found cocaine in the Nestle factory, but when factory staff unloaded coffee beans and found unclear powder and called the police, the police seized the cocaine.

Why is it caused by drug gangs loading drugs in the wrong containers? Because these things happen all the time... More often, local drug traffickers bribe the head of the port and then put drugs into containers destined for the relevant destinations for export. However, due to the large number of containers in the port, these usually operate in the middle of the night, and the people who do this generally have low academic qualifications and do not verify the container information in detail, so that they often load the wrong containers and then go to other places.... Before that, there have been similar "oolong" incidents in China.

On February 9, 2021, the Drug Enforcement Division of the Criminal investigation Corps of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau received a notification from Interpol transferred by the Narcotics Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security that an international cargo ship was loaded with a container suspected of containing drugs when it stopped at the port of Kingston, Jamaica. The number of the box is 4071. Prior to this, the freighter had docked at ports in six different countries and regions, and although Interpol also issued a notification requesting interception, it was unsuccessful for various reasons. At present, the freighter is heading for Shanghai, China.

After receiving the notification, the Shanghai police immediately set up a special case team in conjunction with the customs department to launch the investigation. Under the existing conditions, the task force was still unable to get in touch with the staff of this international shipping company, so they first came to Yangshan Port to learn about the unloading process from the staff. At 11:00 on March 2, 2021, the target cargo ship landed at the Yangshan Port Phase I wharf to unload the boxes, and found the box numbered 4071, which was determined to contain more than 150 million worth of marijuana.

In order to determine whether there is a next home, the task force decided to put a similar shape and weight substitute into the container. Subsequently, container No. 4071 was placed with other empty containers, and the task force began 24-hour close monitoring. In the end, it was a chemical company that "picked up" the goods.

After leaving the wharf, the truck drove to a logistics park in Pudong. After container 4071 was unloaded, the van left. The system shows that the shipping subject matter of this order is "pesticide dangerous goods" and is scheduled to be declared at customs on March 8 and shipped to Kenya on March 13. However, in the follow-up investigation, the police found that the process of suitcase and delivery were random. There is no doubt about the logistics company carrying Container 4071.

While the domestic police were still wondering why there was marijuana in the otherwise empty container, the latest report came from Interpol: two members of an overseas drug trafficking organization were arrested in the United States and Jamaica respectively. One of them was a mole working in the port of Kingston, Jamaica, who took advantage of the opportunity of the cargo ship to secretly put marijuana into the container and loaded it incorrectly. And then shipped to Shanghai. The chemical company almost became a big injustice. )

And this time the coffee beans purchased by the Nestle factory contain cocaine, which is also an outcry. After reading the report, many netizens said that the Nestle coffee in their hands was no longer fragrant. Don't worry, after all, Nestl é will not do such a loss-making business.

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