Massive cocaine shipment discovered by supermarket workers in Rychnov and Jičín

A total of 840 kilograms of cocaine, with an estimated value of over CZK 2 billion, was discovered by supermarket employees in the towns of Jičín and Rychnov nad Kněžnou on Friday, the Czech Police has announced. The shipment may have come from Colombia and is the largest amount of drugs that were seized in a single event in the history of the Czech Republic.

Police say that they found the cocaine in Kaufland supermarkets. The drugs were hidden in banana boxes. The head of the National Drug Headquarters of the Czech Republic, Jakub Frydrich, told Czech Radio that he hopes the drug shipment’s European distributors will be caught with the evidence that has been collected by police. Czech security forces are also looking into whether the 4.5 tons of cocaine from Colombia that were seized in the Italian port city of Trieste were related to the drugs seized in Czechia.