Psychadelic_Paisly
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Cocaine replaced with sugar
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,15011289%5E1702,00.html
18apr05
POLISH prosecutors are investigating the disappearance of 20kg of cocaine from a police warehouse, where it had been replaced by an identical quantity of sugar, police said today.
Zbigniew Matwiej, spokesman for Poland's organised crime fighting unit, the Central Investigative Bureau, said the switch was discovered when officers were disposing of evidence seized several years ago and used in trials.
"The officers noticed that something suspicious was happening with the drugs and immediately stopped the destruction process," Mr Matwiej said.
"Their suspicions that the material was not in fact cocaine proved to be well founded."
The lost cocaine had a street value of about $US1 million ($1.3m), according to Polish private television TVN24.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,15011289%5E1702,00.html
18apr05
POLISH prosecutors are investigating the disappearance of 20kg of cocaine from a police warehouse, where it had been replaced by an identical quantity of sugar, police said today.
Zbigniew Matwiej, spokesman for Poland's organised crime fighting unit, the Central Investigative Bureau, said the switch was discovered when officers were disposing of evidence seized several years ago and used in trials.
"The officers noticed that something suspicious was happening with the drugs and immediately stopped the destruction process," Mr Matwiej said.
"Their suspicions that the material was not in fact cocaine proved to be well founded."
The lost cocaine had a street value of about $US1 million ($1.3m), according to Polish private television TVN24.