Indonesian
authorities nabbed a Nigerian man, Tanzanian woman and shot dead another man
from Nigeria who were reportedly members of a Malaysian-based drug
ring as they
tried to smuggle marijuana and crystal methamphetamine into Indonesia, an
official said on Friday, January 6.
Customs officials at
Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport had arrested the Tanzanian
woman, whose name has not been unannounced as she arrived from Kuala Lumpur in
the early hours of Wednesday, January 4th
The officials
confiscated 138 grams of crystal meth hidden in 20 capsules and three grams of
marijuana tucked into her underpants, and 66 more capsules of crystal meth that
she had swallowed.
"We arrested
the woman after conducting data screening," Customs and Excise director
general Heru Pambudi said, adding that the Tanzanian woman had traveled to
Indonesia on her boyfriend's instructions, a Uganda national in Malaysia.
Customs officials
later teamed up with police officers to arrest two Nigerian men who were going
to receive the drugs from the woman at a restaurant in Central Jakarta. Both
men were allegedly part of the Malaysia-based drug ring.
They resisted the
police's attempt to arrest them and tried to flee the scene, prompting officers
to shoot. One of the men died at the scene. The Indonesian police have
reportedly turned their attention to the Malaysian drug ring lately.
"Better data and information exchange with the Customs Office has helped
us enormously in investigating the Malaysian drug ring,"
National Police
Chief Gen. Tito Karnavian said. The police and Customs officials have foiled
673 drug smuggling attempts into Indonesia between 2014 and 2017, and seized
more than 2,000 kilograms of drugs.
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