OREANDA-NEWS Employees of the company found an «indeterminate white substance» when unloading bags of coffee on Monday, May 2. The police arrived at the scene and searched five containers delivered by train on the same day. More than 500 kg of the drug was found and seized.

According to police, cocaine has a purity of more than 80%. The value of the batch is estimated at more than 50 million Swiss francs (€48.1 million). Containers with bags of coffee were delivered from Brazil. The police believe that the drugs were intended for the European market.

It is noted that the batch of drugs was isolated from other cargoes and did not come into contact with other products used in the production of Nespresso.

Earlier, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk, who had previously announced an agreement to purchase Twitter, jokingly warned on the social network that he intended to buy Coca-Cola in order to return cocaine to the composition in the future. The company's shares have not yet responded to the businessman's statement at the preliminary auction.