Chocs and robbers: Thief steals 20 tonnes of CHOCOLATE worth £43,000 in Austria
- Milka factory in Bludenz, Austria informs police of the massive chocolate Heist
- Theft pulled off by truck driver working for Czech company using forged papers
- Austrian police said chocolate theft on such a scale was a rare occurrence
Austrian police said on Friday that they were looking for a stolen truck carrying at least 20 tonnes of chocolate stolen from an Austrian chocolate factory last week.
The truck's contents were stolen from a Milka factory, a popular US-German chocolate manufacturer, and are said to have a value of 50,000 euros (£43,000).
The truck was loaded last week at the factory in the town of Bludenz in western Austria.
The Milka chocolate factory in Bludenz, Austria, where the daring chocolate heist took place
Chocolate confection company Milka, a popular US-German confectioner, told police that they have had £43,000 worth of chocolate stolen from one of their factories in western Austria
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But it turns out it bore a stolen license plate and the driver, truck and chocolates are missing, police told AFP.
The Austrian company in charge of the transport outsourced it to a Hungarian company, which in turn tasked a Czech partner with the job.
A driver who said he was working for the Czech company picked up the load using fake papers, before escaping with his contraband confectionary.
Austrian police said that chocolate theft on such a scale was rare but not unheard of.
'In recent years we have seen a number of individual cases where loaded trucks never arrived - also containing chocolate,' a police spokeswoman told German news agency DPA.
The driver turned up at the Milka factory in Bludenz with fake documents and loaded up his car with 20 tonnes of the good stuff
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