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Hamburg Investigators Probe Coffee-Firm Employee Over 2.4 Tons of Seized Stock

State investigators now lead a particularly serious theft case prompted by the employer’s internal probe.

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Der Mitarbeiter entwendete mehr als zwei Tonnen Kaffee bei seinem Arbeitgeber. (Symbolfoto)
Ein Dieb soll in Hamburg zwei Tonnen Kaffee gestohlen und teilweise weiterverkauft haben. Bei dem 31-Jährigen handelt es sich nach Polizeiangaben um den Mitarbeiter eines Unternehmens, das mit Kaffee handelt.
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Overview

  • Police stopped the 31-year-old as he left the company site and found about 500 kilograms of freshly roasted coffee packed in one-kilogram bags in his car.
  • Searches of his apartment and two garages uncovered roughly 1,900 kilograms more coffee, over €20,000 in cash, and a high-end wristwatch, and officers seized the vehicle as a crime instrument.
  • Authorities suspect the employee stole more than two tonnes of coffee from the trading firm and partially resold the goods.
  • The company reported its suspicions to criminal police in early August following internal inquiries, and the state office LKA 16 assumed the investigation.
  • After completion of police measures, the suspect was released as the probe into a particularly serious case of theft continues without a public charge announced.