A truck with almost 20 tonnes of chocolate disappeared on its way from Austria to Belgium. As the Tyrolean police announced on Thursday, it has managed to get an unknown offender with fake papers to the sweet cargo. Now there is no trace of the man and the chocolate.
According to the police, the man presented both false personal documents and false vehicle papers when he picked up the freight earlier in the week. The license plates on the semitrailer were reported as stolen, and the registration numbers on the tractor did not match those in the documents. But no one noticed the dizziness - and the semi-trailer was loaded with chocolate worth about 50,000 euros. At the destination in Belgium, the sweet goods never arrived.
The order for the delivery had actually accepted a company from Tyrol, but then passed it on to a freight forwarder from Hungary. This commissioned a company from the Czech Republic with the ride, as the police explained. The unknown person turned out to be an employee of the Czech company at the Hungarian company - but they do not know him there.
A curious individual case? Obviously not. "In recent years, we have occasionally isolated cases in which loaded trucks have not arrived - even with chocolate," said a spokeswoman for the police of the German Press Agency.
