Over $50 million worth of cocaine, weighing in at more than 1,000 pounds, was seized by authorities when it was discovered in shipments of coffee bean bags delivered to a Nespresso plant in Switzerland.
On Monday, employees at the factory called their local police after they found "an undetermined white substance while unloading bags of freshly delivered coffee beans."
The bags arrived at the facility in five shipping containers from Brazil, according to the police. When officers arrived at the factory, they analyzed the powder, finding it to be 80% pure cocaine, Reuters reported.
"The search of the five sea containers delivered on the day in question by train led to the discovery and seizure of more than 500 kg of this drug," police said, The New York Post reported.
Those worried about their Nespresso pods at home, which are pretty expensive already, don't need to worry about any extra kick in their coffee, as police said the cocaine "did not come into contact with any product used in production."
Nespresso expressed this same point in a statement to Fox News, adding that the "suspicious substance" was reported to police as soon as workers discovered it.
The coffee giant said to Fox News that consumers don't need to worry, as "all our products are safe to consume."
The investigation into how the $50.65 million worth of drugs made it into the shipment is ongoing. Nespresso declined to comment any further on it but did say the company has "strict quality controls in place for green coffee arriving at our warehouses right up to the finished product."
This isn't the first time narcotics have shown up in shipments to Europe from South America. Vice reported that a shipment of coconuts filled with liquid cocaine was intercepted on route to Italy in a Colombian port earlier this year.
Police shared that the drugs were most likely intended to be sold and distributed in the European market, but it is off the streets thanks to the workers at Nespresso.
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