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Multa Fidrus, The Jakarta Post, Tangerang
Customs and excise officers at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport again foiled smuggling attempts of 2.3 kilograms of shabu-shabu (crystal methampethamine) and 400 grams of catamine from Hong kong into the country.
Customs and excise officers at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport again foiled smuggling attempts of 2.3 kilograms of shabu-shabu (crystal methampethamine) and 400 grams of catamine from Hong kong into the country.
They also arrested two Taiwanese identified as Chao Peng Chi, 39, and Chen Kuo Sung, 50, along with the evidence allegedly worth Rp 7.9 billion in street market.
Rahmat Subagio, airport customs office chief said the suspects arrived at the airport at midnight on Tuesday on board Viva Macao ZG 101 flight.
"Officers always observed all passengers profiles and they became suspicious when the two suspects, who did not know each other looked nervous. Our officers at the checking point reported that they found strange objects in passengers’s stride and luggages," he said.
Officers then asked the suspects to open the luggages and found snack boxes and cans containing the drug wrapped in several aluminium foil bags.
Officers also examined Chao Peng Chi's body and found a bag of shabu-shaby strraped to his stride.
Both suspects who claimed to have never visited the country before said that they were asked by a man called Aseng to carry the drug to Jakarta and someone would pick them up at the airport upon their arrival.
Chao Peng Chi and Chen Kuo Sung testified that they were promised 15,000 Yuan after they submited the drug to someone in Jakarta.
Eko Darmanto, cihef of intelligence at the customs office said officers have focused attention on all passengers arriving from high-risk countries for drug smuggling routes such as Hong Kong, China, Thailand, Malaysia and drug resources conutries such as Macao and Latin American countries.
"Drug smuggling attempts, especially from Hong Kong is an extra ordinary threat because we have repeatedly foiled drug smuggling attempts from Hong Kong since January," he said, ading that this was the seventh drug smuggling attempt that customs officers have foiled this year.
He said customs office had arrested a total of 16 suspects in the drug smuggling attempts foiled since in January. The suspects consisted of 8 Taiwanese, 3 Chinese Malaysians, 2 Thai women, an English man and 2 Indonesians.
The suspects had been handed down to the airport police for furhter investigations and legal process.
"We are just authorized to foil drug smuggling attempts at the airport but disclose wider networks and the drug syndicate is the responsibility of the National Drugs Body," Eko added.
Chao Peng Chi who is in violation of the 1997 psychotropic subtance law will likely face a maximum punishement of a ten-year imprisonment with fines of Rp 300 million while Chen Kuo Sung wil be charged of violating Article 81 of the 1992 law on health. The article carries a maximum puishment of a seven-year jail term.
1 comment:
kenapa ya kok masih byk pnyelundupan dan sejenisnya lewat bndra ke indonesia...
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