Amsterdam, Dec 14, (dpa/GNA) – Dutch police stopped the French driver of a vehicle, carrying two coffins filled with cocaine on a motorway to the south of Rotterdam, after they found his driving suspicious, the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper reported on Saturday.
The man insisted he was carrying two bodies when police stopped his delivery vehicle on the A29 at Numansdorp late on Friday, but he was unable to produce the necessary documentation.
The police had the coffins opened at an undertaker’s to find sports bags containing around 250 kilograms of cocaine, with a street value of some $14 million.
According to a police spokesman, the man was driving from France to the Netherlands, but did not himself know his ultimate destination. He was to have received a message telling him where to go.
The driver is being held in custody, and the drugs have been destroyed.
GNA