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View all search resultsBali becomes new key target for South American drug cartels, BNN
BNN Chief Commissioner General Marthinus Hukom stated that Indonesia is witnessing a rising trend in transnational drug trafficking, with popular tourist destinations, especially Bali, becoming prime targets.
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Argentinian national Eleonora Gracia (left) and UK citizen Elliot James Shaw (right) await their trial on July 10 at the Denpasar District Court. They are facing prison sentences of nine and six years, respectively, for allegedly smuggling cocaine into Bali. (Jakarta Post/Ni Komang Erviani)
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ali has become a new key target market for South American drug cartels, which are expanding their networks in Indonesia amid a tougher crackdown in the United States, according to the National Narcotics Agency (BNN).
The statement came after authorities arrested a Brazilian citizen at Bali’s I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport on July 13 for allegedly trafficking three kilograms of cocaine into the country.
BNN’s acting head of narcotics eradication, Brig. Gen. Torik Triyono, said the Brazilian was allegedly part of a South American cartel and worked for a drug dealer in his home country.
“The fact that he trafficked three kilograms of cocaine shows how large the potential market for narcotics is in Bali,” he said on Wednesday, as reported by Antaranews.
The Brazilian suspect was charged with violating Article 114 of the 2009 Narcotics Law on drug trafficking, which carries a maximum sentence of the death penalty.
The arrest came just a few months after a 45-year-old Argentinian woman was also apprehended in Bali for smuggling more than 300 grams of cocaine. Authorities allege that she was part of a Mexican drug ring.
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