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BNN confiscates assets of drug convict accused of continuing business behind bars
The National Narcotics Agency has confiscated several assets belonging to Muhammad Adam, a convicted drug dealer it accuses of controlling international drug transactions worth Rp 28 billion (US$1.95 million) from behind bars.
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he National Narcotics Agency (BNN) has confiscated several assets belonging to Muhammad Adam, a convicted drug dealer it accuses of controlling international drug transactions worth Rp 28 billion (US$1.95 million) from behind bars.
Among the assets the agency confiscated are 19 cars of various makes, such as Range Rovers and Toyota Alphards and Fortuners, foreign cash worth Rp 900 million, Rp 45 million in Indonesian currency and a house on Jl. Palem Ratu in Batam, Riau.
The BNN also seized four speedboats, as well as a plot of land and a shophouse in Riau.
The deputy head of the BNN's eradication division, Insp. Gen. Arman Depari, said that his team seized Adam’s assets after it intercepted an illegal drug shipment at Merak Port in Banten, West Java on Aug. 21. As many as 42 kilograms of methamphetamine were attempting to be smuggled from Jambi to Jakarta.
On the same day, the BNN discovered 31,000 illegal ecstasy pills in a warehouse in Jambi. Both of these operations were allegedly run by Adam.
“Adam [allegedly] controls it from behind his bar. He is a convicted drug felon,” Arman said on Thursday.
Arman said Adam was originally sentenced to death, but the Supreme Court reduced his sentence to 20 years of imprisonment.
