Bali Police have uncovered a 1.8 kilogram cocaine smuggling case suspected of involving a foreign national from Australia with the initials LAA (43).
Bali Police Chief Inspector General Daniel Adityajaya said the perpetrators infiltrated the cocaine from abroad through packages delivery services disguised in stationery and dolls.
"The modus operandi of this crime is to use foreign postal services to deliver cocaine-type narcotics which will be circulated later in Bali," said Daniel, Monday, May 26.
He explained that the drug packages were sent from England in two types of packages with different addresses to North Kuta, Badung Regency to trick officers. The package was sent on Saturday 12 April 2025.
The two packages arrived in Bali on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. When they arrived in Bali, the Ngurah Rai Customs and Excise officer conducted an analysis of the X-ray image and suspected that the package contained narcotics. Customs and Excise officers also informed the Bali Police.
Furthermore, on May 21, the suspect LAA asked an online motorcycle taxi driver with the initials YE to pick up the package. However, because he was busy, YE took the package on May 22, 2025. After being taken by YE, the first package was asked to be given to another driver in Renon, Denpasar for further delivery to Tibubeneng, North Kuta.
After that, witness YE was then directed again to take the second package.
At that time, the Bali Police's Narcotics Directorate team controlled the delivery of the package until they finally arrested the suspect LAA who allegedly received the package at a villa located in Gang Manggis, Tibubeneng, North Kuta District, Badung Regency.
From the results of the disclosure, the Bali Police's Narcotics Directorate managed to secure evidence of narcotics class I of cocaine found in the two packages as many as 206 packages with a total weight of 1,816.92 grams gross.
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In addition to the evidence of narcotics of the type of cocaine, other supporting evidence was also found in the room where the suspect LAA lived in the form of a digital scale and a plastic bundle, as well as a cellphone.
Daniel revealed that from the results of the investigation, LAA admitted that it only carried out orders from someone with a salary of Rp. 50 million.
Daniel said the price of the drug was estimated at IDR 12 billion.
The suspect LAA was charged with Article 113 paragraph (2), Article 114 paragraph (2) of Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics.
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