Boiled Using Boiling Water, How The Riau Islands Police Destroyed 48,473.22 Grams Of Cocaine In Anambas

KEPRI - Riau Islands Police (Kepri) destroyed 48,473.22 grams of cocaine found on the coast of the Anambas Islands by boiling it in boiling water.

"From 43 packs of white powder narcotic cocaine, the weight was 48,475.1 with details for examination at the Riau Police Forensic Laboratory (Labfor) as much as 220.1 grams, then returned from the Riau Police Labfor as much as 218.22 grams and 48,473.22 grams to be destroyed," said Deputy Chief of the Riau Islands Police Brigadier General Rudi Pranoto in a written statement, Thursday, July 21.

This cocaine, said Rudi, was found by local fishermen in Tunjuk Beach, Landak Village, Jemaja District as many as 25 packs were loaded in black bags, then reported the findings to police officers.

"Furthermore, a search was carried out around the beach and again managed to get a total of 43 packs of cocaine-type narcotics from 8 places from July 1 to July 3, 2022," he said, according to Antara.

Rudi explained that based on these facts, the discovery of 43 packs of cocaine-type narcotics was suspected to have come from OPL (Out Port Limited) or international waters in the territorial waters of Malaysia and Thailand which were carried by westerly winds to the waters of the Anambas Islands.

“It can be seen based on the facts on the ground that a lot of garbage on the Jemaja Island Beach is thought to have come from international waters or OPL. It can be analyzed that the transportation used by the international cocaine syndicate is a ship to the destination country by tying evidence of narcotics types of cocaine under the hull of the ship. Due to extreme weather factors, evidence of this type of cocaine was carried away by the west wind and stranded on the coast of the Anambas Islands region," he said.

The Director of Narcotics of the Riau Islands Police, Kombes Pol. Ahmad David, added that his party had cooperated with all agencies related to this discovery.

"From our identification results, this is an international network originating from other countries with a 'ship to ship' delivery system, so that it has not yet had time to enter our territory and the extreme weather has caused these narcotics to be carried by the current and stranded on the coast. the Anambas Islands region," he said.