The chief of the German bureau of investigation (BKA) said drug dealers had learned new ways to sell their wares, stating that “we haven't noticed a shortage on the market".
Germany's customs service said Friday it had seized a 4.5 tonne cocaine shipment, the country's largest ever, with an estimated street value of one billion euros.
An Albanian businessman suspected of being involved in smuggling a record 613 kilos (1351 pounds) of Colombian cocaine in a cargo of bananas was arrested in Germany on Friday, police in Tirana said.
A head doctor in Saxony-Anhalt has been arrested under suspicion that he dosed a woman with cocaine during oral sex without her knowledge. The woman collapsed and died in hospital.
German police said on Friday they have arrested Andrei Kovalchuk, the alleged mastermind of a plot to smuggle cocaine to Russia from Moscow's embassy in Argentina.
Customs officials at Munich Airport became suspicious when they spotted a nervous-looking man who had just arrived on a flight from the Netherlands. Further investigation showed he had swallowed an astonishing quantity of cocaine.
On Thursday the German customs agency presented a huge quantity of cocaine which it had seized at Hamburg harbour. It was the largest cocaine seizure in German history.
Milk might be white gold to most farmers, but one cattle farmer in eastern Germany had an even more lucrative white substance swilling around in his barns.
More than 300 kilograms of cocaine worth €15 million were discovered in Berlin-area Aldi supermarkets, hidden in cases of bananas, police reported on Monday.
For years no-one noticed that the head of the drug squad in Kempten, Bavaria, was on a personal rampage of narcotics- and domestic abuse - until his wife shopped him for the €250,000 brick of cocaine he had stashed. But the local population isn't buying the story.
A Bavarian police chief who was caught with 1.5 kilograms of cocaine in his work locker told investigators he had the drugs “for educational purposes,” according to reports on Friday.
Bavarian police have launched an investigation after finding cocaine worth more than €250,000 in the locker of the head of a police narcotics department, but they are baffled as to where it came from.
A 76-year-old woman who decided to celebrate her birthday with a free-for-all cocaine bash in her Berlin bar has been arrested and was being held Friday, police said.
UPDATE: Police said a “logistical error” was behind Berlin’s biggest cocaine find since 1999. Officers found 140 kilos of the drug hidden among bananas at five Aldi stores.
A policeman was key to a cocaine smuggling operation which brought more than 400 kilos of the drug into Germany in hollowed-out doors, prosecutors said.
The deal behind one of the biggest German drug busts of recent times only happened due to pressure from the police - the man who could be jailed would not have got involved without them, his lawyer said on Tuesday.
German police said Tuesday they had seized a record haul of 1.3 tonnes of cocaine with an estimated street value of €40 million and made seven arrests.
A supermarket worker in southern Germany was stunned to discover 28 kilogrammes (62 pounds) of cocaine while unpacking crates of bananas, police reported on Friday.
Authorities have arrested 10 drug couriers carrying a total of 11 kilogrammes of cocaine in their bellies after conducting x-rays and waiting for the little pellets to pass naturally, Baden-Württemberg police and customs officials reported on Thursday.
