Berlin police have seized 386kg (851lbs) of cocaine found in boxes of Colombian bananas that showed up in Aldi supermarkets yesterday, the Berliner Morgenpost reported.

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Berlin Police drug department head Stephan de Reese told the publication the discovery had a high degree of purity with a street value of around €15 million (US$16.7 million), however black market prices from Havocscope.com indicate the drugs could have been worth up to €30 million ($33.5 million).

Investigators found the drugs hidden inside green bags in boxes across 13 stores in the Berlin area, traced back to a warehouse in the city's Moabit district that had come from Hamburg.

Video footage from the seizure shows some of the cocaine was found in boxes marked with the well-known brand 'Turbana'.

Coming more than a year after a very similar discovery involving the same supermarket chain in early 2014, police spokesperson Stefan Redlich told the Berliner Morgenpost this was the biggest drug bust ever in Berlin.

The event comes hot on the heels of another substantial shipment of cocaine discovered in banana boxes in southern Germany in March.

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