Polish prosecutors are investigating the disappearance of 20 kg (44 lbs) of cocaine from a police warehouse, where it had been replaced by an identical quantity of sugar, police said.
Zbigniew Matwiej, spokesman for Poland's organized crime fighting unit, the Central Investigative Bureau, said the switch was discovered when officers were disposing of evidence that had been 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. Their suspicions that the material was not in fact cocaine proved to be well founded," Matwiej said.
The lost cocaine had a street value of about $1 million, according to Polish private television TVN24.
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