Spanish police was reported by El Mundo newspaper to have recovered 25 kilos of heroin hidden in boxes of plantains intended to be sold at Madrid supermarkets.
Plantains are a member of the banana family. They are a starchy, low in sugar variety that is cooked before serving as it is unsuitable raw. It is usually fried or baked.
The alarm was raised when staff at Lidl supermarkets unpacked the boxes of bananas which had been distributed from Mercamadrid to the company’s stores in the city, and discovered one-kilo packages of heroin hidden beneath the fruit.
The cargo of bananas came from Ivory Coast and Ecuador and believed to have been used to smuggle the illegal drug into the country but was delivered by error to the Spanish capital’s central wholesale market.
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