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National scene: Pakistani arrested for drugs
The National Narcotics Agency (BNN) arrested on Thursday a Pakistani identified only as GS for allegedly attempting to smuggle 15 kilograms of methamphetamine and 22,000 ecstasy pills into the country through Muara Karang, North Jakarta
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he National Narcotics Agency (BNN) arrested on Thursday a Pakistani identified only as GS for allegedly attempting to smuggle 15 kilograms of methamphetamine and 22,000 ecstasy pills into the country through Muara Karang, North Jakarta.
The drugs were wrapped in plastic and concealed in a box containing salted fish.
The BNN also arrested an Indonesian identified only as IA, 45, who worked as a guide for GS.
'The meth and ecstasy pills were allegedly from Malaysia. GS planned to take the drugs to Depok, West Java, where he lives,' BNN spokesman Sr. Comr. Slamet Pribadi said in Jakarta.
GS asked IA to be his guide because he did not know the way from Jakarta to Depok. As payment for his services, IA was to get 1 kilogram of meth.
Both GS and IA will be charged under the 2009 Narcotics Law, which carried the death penalty, Slamet said.
According to the BNN's preliminary investigation, GS was part of an Indonesian-Malaysian-Pakistani drug ring. He also reportedly has a connection to three Chinese drug dealers arrested with 44 kilograms of crystal meth in Central Jakarta last Friday.
