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Police seize 2 luxury cars smuggled from Malaysia
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Illegal trade: West Kalimantan Police personnel confiscate two luxury cars during an operation on Feb. 28. It was suspected the cars were smuggled from Malaysia. (JP/Severianus Endi)
The West Kalimantan Police confiscated two high-class Porsche Carreras carried by a Fuso truck during an operation on Tuesday.
The police suspect the two luxury vehicles were smuggled from Malaysia via a checkpoint between the two countries, but cannot yet confirm which border checkpoint the vehicles passed through.
The Porsche Carreras were to be shipped to Jakarta from Dwikora Port, Pontianak. To deceive security personnel, the truck was used to carry the cars and camouflaged as if it was carrying rubber.
West Kalimantan Police chief Insp.Gen. Musyafak said his personnel were investigating the case and had obtained the name of the cars’ buyer in Jakarta.
Meanwhile, the police’s special crime director Sr. Comr. Masudi said the two cars were loaded onto the Fuso truck at Batu Layang Terminal and would have been brought to Jakarta on board shipping vessel Mulya Sentosa, which was scheduled to depart early on Wednesday.
Identified only by his initials YM, the truck’s driver, who is a resident of Bulung Cangkring village, Jekulo district, Kudus, Central Java, said he was ordered to bring the cars from Jakarta to Cirebon, West Java.
“We will check both the machine and chassis numbers of the cars so we can know whether they were from abroad. But what we can confirm is that the cars were brought over the Malaysia-Indonesia border,” said Masudi.
(Read also: Ex-police officer shot dead while smuggling drugs)
Five regencies in West Kalimantan sit along the border with Malaysia: Kabupaan Sanggau, Sambas, Bengkayang, Kapuas Hulu and Sintang. (ebf)
