Iranian caught trying to smuggle in meth
Antara News, Sunday, September 12, 2010 08:30 WIB
Tangerang, Banten (ANTARA News) - An Iranian was on Friday caught attempting to smuggle in 340 grams of methamphetamine through Jakarta`s Soekarno-Hatta airport, a customs official said.
"Customs officials at the airport foiled an attempt by an Iranian to smuggle in methamphetamine on Idul Fitri," head of the airport`s customs and excise service, Bahaduri Widjayanta said here on Saturday.
He said the Iranian was caught after a customs official was suspicious about his bag after the X-Ray monitor showed a strange image in it as well as the person`s behavior.
After manually checking the bag the official discovered white powder in its handler and upon testing it was confirmed as methamphetamine. "He was immediately arrested," Bahaduri said.
He said the person was one of the passengers of an Emirate Airways plane arriving at the airport at around 11.10pm on Friday.
According to him the drug would be sent to a hotel on Jalan Hayamwuruk, West Jakarta. He believed the suspect was a courier of an international drug ring.
Before being a courier, the suspect said he was actually an exporter of belts but allured by the huge money they had offered he finally agreed to become their courier.
When he first came to Indonesia he was given US$300,000 by one of his bosses.
The authorities are now still developing the case. "The hotel room where the stuff would be sent to has been checked but nothing was found there including the person said to receive it. The case however will still be developed," the chief of narcotics affairs of the airport police resort, Adjuct Commissioner Ahmad Junaedi, said.
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