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Cell phone smuggling attempt foiled
The Mataram Police foiled an attempt to smuggle mobile phones from Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), to Jakarta by confiscating at least 4,428 BlackBerry devices and iPhones worth Rp 20 billion (US$2 million) and detained three people, identified only by their initials R, H and S
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he Mataram Police foiled an attempt to smuggle mobile phones from Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), to Jakarta by confiscating at least 4,428 BlackBerry devices and iPhones worth Rp 20 billion (US$2 million) and detained three people, identified only by their initials R, H and S.
“The BlackBerrys and iPhones are original, but they are not equipped with documents. This means their taxes have not been paid,” NTB Police chief Brig. Gen. Moch Iriawan on Thursday. Iriawan explained that police officers became suspicious of the transfer of goods from one car to another in front of the Mataram Mall on Monday evening.
“When the perpetrators were asked [about the goods], they answered they were mobile phone accessories. The goods have now been confiscated,” he said. According to the police chief, R, one of the alleged perpetrators, tried to bribe the police to keep them from questioning the origin of the phones.
During the police’s display of the confiscated phones, the 4,428 gadgets were packed in 17 travel bags without their accompanying boxes, user manuals or chargers.
Iriawan said that based on preliminary questioning, R brought the smuggled goods from Singapore on a SilkAir flight to Lombok International Airport in Central Lombok. After arriving in Mataram, H and S, planned transport the smuggled gadgets to Jakarta.
