M&M's, a Mars chocolate brand, advertise outside the Mars China office in Beijing. Photo: Zhang Hongpei/GT

Austrian police said Friday they were looking for a stolen truck carrying 20 tons of chocolate worth 50,000 euros ($55,120) from a Milka factory.

The truck was loaded last week in the town of Bludenz in western Austria. But it turns out that it bore a stolen license plate and the driver, truck and chocolate 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.

Police said chocolate theft on such a scale was rare.

AFP