A 42-year-old fruit trader from Apeldoorn has been arrested on money laundering charges after two loads of cocaine were found hidden in shipments of pineapples, news agency ANP reports.

The cocaine was found last January and in April 2011 but police were unable to prove the trader’s involvement in drugs smuggling, ANP says. However, an investigation of the company’s finances did show ‘suspicious cash flows’.
The first drugs haul consisted of 500 kilos of cocaine hidden in hollowed-out pineapples and was seized in Antwerp. Detectives found a further 190 kilos in January hidden between whole fruit.