Teacher arrested for smuggling crystal meth

The customs office at the Ngurah Rai Airport, Denpasar announced on Sunyda it had arrested T, 49, a teacher for smuggling 3.75 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine (shabu shabu) from Kenya.

Officers seized the drugs, hidden inside a black luggage, on Monday last week.

Airport customs office head Made Wijaya said as quoted by kompas.com in a press conference that T, who flew with Qatar Airways via Qatar and Singapore, might have been a carrier.

The investigation showed that two more people were allegedly involved in the smuggling: E, and NI. Both were planned to receive the package.

 “E, T’s cousin, has a Nigerian boyfriend who is allegedly linked to a drug smuggling network,” he said.

Wijaya said T, who confessed she had no idea about the content of the luggage, took the package from Maputo, Mozambique.

T was promised to receive Rp 7 million (US$791) for her job as a carrier, Wijaya added

"She might need the money to pay the tuition fee for her master degree in Malang," he said.