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Tangerang court sentences four drug convicts to death
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National Police chief Gen.Tito Karnavian (center), accompanied by the police's Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim) head Comr. Gen. Ari Dono Sukmanto (right) and Bareskrim narcotics division head Brig.Gen Eko Daniyanto (left) show drugs confiscated in recent operations against international drug trafficking networks in a press conference at Bhayangkara Police Hospital in Jakarta on Jan.6. (Antara/M.Agung Rajasa)
T
he panel of judges at Tangerang District Court has handed down the death penalty to three Taiwanese citizens and one Indonesian for trafficking 60 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine.
The defendants have been identified as Chen Alin, Achen, Alang and Suprapto. Alin and Achen, through their lawyers, said that they had not decided on further action while Alang and Suprapto said they would appeal.
“For their offenses, the defendants are sentenced to death. The defendants have been proven guilty of jointly committing acts of crime,” said presiding judge Tuti Hariyati said on Friday, as quoted by wartakota.tribunnews.com.
The death sentence was imposed as the panel of judges did not find any mitigating circumstances for the defendants.
Joko Priyatno, the lawyer for Alin and Achen, said his clients were not part of the drug ring that smuggled the meth as Alin came to the country as a technician and Achen as a driver. Edi Rustandi, Alang’s lawyer, said that his client only possessed 1.06 kg of crystal methamphetamine not 60 kg.
Alin and Achen were arrested at Sun Plaza, South Tangerang, in May, in possession of 6 kg of meth. They said that they obtained the meth from Suprapto. The police then raided Suprapto's house at Paramount Cluster Alicante residential area and found 54 kilograms of meth. (wnd/wit)
