bananas make you happy, sometimes drug investigators. Every now and again to be found in grocery stores and wholesale warehouses larger packages of cocaine in banana boxes. Just last week, were seized in the warehouse of a supermarket chain in Bördekreis (Saxony-Anhalt) ten kilograms of cocaine. In Switzerland, was recently found 100 kg of cocaine, also in banana boxes. In artificial legs, steel screws and puppies have been cocaine found. Drug smugglers are very creative in their work. The banana box but for years quite popular with the guys. But why? After coffee bananas are the world's second most traded food. In Germany, the per capita consumption at 15 kilograms a year. Much of the world banana demand is supplied by Central and Latin America. Bananas come therefore from the same corner of the world such as cocaine. Since it is obviously close to smuggle cocaine to the infrastructure of the banana industry to operate. For the drug cartels has numerous advantages.
- security personnel, plantations and transport workers in Latin America are poor paid and susceptible to bribery.
- on the huge banana plantations are very similar to the swarm of bees, a few smugglers subject to hide something in the boxes to spot.
- Continuous monitoring of delivery is not possible to convert such seals or seal can be manipulated (if any) easily.
- in the supply chain can make at different (storage, port) to intervene in order to hide cocaine and then pick them up.
- bananas are perishable foods, they come to Europe and have tons of fast are delivered. Not much time for customs and police to control.
- Once out of the harbor lies the danger of being checked again at zero, even if you drive across Europe.
If, as modified in Saxony-Anhalt cocaine packets are found, is often the chance to Commissioner. In general, every time you draw on the part of the drug recipient something goes wrong and the cocaine packages are not removed in time from the banana crates. For example, if because of damaged goods, a charge will be rescheduled and is not to the intended receiver to the charging papers.
share in South America currently rages a violent drug war. In Mexico and Brazil are intensifying security forces against drug cartels. Although there are successes here and there, can totally win the fight is not good. The experience of recent decades shows that will shift the drug trade within South America only. It is to be expected in the future finds cocaine in banana box, run always nice attention through the fruit and vegetable section.
