Luxembourg authorities seized almost a ton of cocaine hidden in a stone crusher “of Colombian origin” in a record bust for the small European state, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Police detained two suspects after they discovered white powder worth up to 160 million euros ($165 million) inside the machine on Thursday last week.
It took forensics police almost a week to extract all the packages stashed inside the crusher’s three rollers, after the apparatus was taken to a safe location for dismantling, officials said.
Luxembourg police released images showing armed officers standing behind dozens of packages of the alleged drugs. They said the cocaine “will be destroyed as soon as possible.”
In total, authorities found “a little over 889 kilograms” of cocaine, the Grand Duchy’s public prosecutor’s office said.
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