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Officers thwart smuggling of 72 kg in narcotics

A joint team from the Finance Ministry’s Directorate General of Customs and Excise and the National Police have foiled an attempt to smuggle in 72 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, locally known as sabu-sabu, from Nigerian and Malaysian drug rings

The Jakarta Post
Jakarta
Thu, July 28, 2016

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joint team from the Finance Ministry’s Directorate General of Customs and Excise and the National Police have foiled an attempt to smuggle in 72 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, locally known as sabu-sabu, from Nigerian and Malaysian drug rings.

The National Police’s director of narcotics division, Brig. Gen. Dharma Pongrekun, told journalists on Wednesday at his office in Cawang, East Jakarta, that the Nigerian syndicate had shipped the drugs on two occasions, on July 20 and July 25.

“On July 18 we received information that 33.5 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine would be sent from Cameroon to Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, via Turkey,” he said.

Two days later, the police teamed up with Soekarno-Hatta’s customs officers and tailed the suspected couriers, identified only by initials ZL and MN, both Indonesians, from the airport before arresting them on the Cibubur toll road in East Jakarta along with 33.5 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine packed inside four air jet filter tubes that were seized as evidence.

The suspects revealed that another 28.5 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine would be shipped through Soekarno-Hatta airport on July 25. It was later found that the narcotics had been hidden inside three air jet filter tubes and a cereal box.

Separately on July 20, the joint team also thwarted an attempt to smuggle 10 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine in a backpack and shipped in from Kuala Selangor Port in Malaysia to Batubara Port in North Sumatra.

“The courier, FA, an Indonesian,and SL, a member of the Aceh Army Infantry Battalion (Yonif), who guarded FA in the drug smuggling process, were both caught at a gas station in Talawi district, Batubara Regency, that day,” Dharma said, adding that SL was then handed over to Military Police Sub-Detachment (Subdenpom) I/1-IV in Kisaran, Asahan Regency, North Sumatra.

The suspects will be charged with violating Narcotics Law No. 35/2009 articles 112 and 114. The suspects could face the death penalty.

The drug shipments from the Malaysian and Nigerian syndicates add to a long list of 152 drug smuggling attempts thwarted by the directorate general of customs and excise from January to June this year, totaling 452 kilograms of narcotics of various types.

Customs and excise director Heru Pambudi said that from 2013 to 2015, the directorate general captured 609 drug shipments from various countries, mostly from Malaysia.

“From 2013 to 2015, we captured a total of 1.43 tons of narcotics that could have harmed the bodies of 7.1 million Indonesians,” Heru said. (adt)

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