Police uncover £11m of illegal drugs delivered to Aldi

When you work in a supermarket, the last thing you expect to come across is a container full of Class A drugs.

However, that is exactly what workers across various Aldi stores discovered when they opened some mystery packages that were delivered to the stores by mistake.

Over £11 million worth of cocaine was delivered by drug barons in Colombia to 13 branches of Aldi in Berlin, Germany.

Packets of the class-A substance were found hidden in boxes of bananas that were delivered through the port of Hamburg.

The unfortunate delivery was thought to be a "logistical mistake".

The blunder is thought to have come about because drug barons will often conceal their illegal substances in ordinary shipments in order to pass through customs.

Commenting on the discovery, a police spokesman, said in an interview with Der Tagesspiegel, "The cocaine obviously wasn’t meant for the supermarkets.

"Anyone waiting to take that delivery will have quite a problem on their hands.”

Officers searched more than 1,000 crates following the discovery but no more cocaine was found.

However, this latest haul is not the first time drugs have unwittingly been delivered to the wrong place.

Last year, American delivery company FedEx unwittingly discovered a drugs operation, when they inspected a defective package in Washington.

Upon inspection, it transpired that a drug-smuggling business had delivered hundreds of illegal painkillers across America.

In October 2014, 727lbs of heroin was uncovered by German police in a truck shipping pickled cucumbers and garlic from Iran. It is thought to be the single biggest seizure of illegal substances in decades.