Smuggling Of Lobster Seeds Worth IDR 4.1 Billion Successfully Foiled

Head Of Criminal Investigation Unit Of Soekarno Hatta Airport Police, Kompol Reza Fahlevi/ Photo: IST

TANGERANG - The police have arrested five perpetrators suspected of smuggling international-level lobster clear seeds which cost the state up to Rp4.1 billion. Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of Soekarno Hatta Airport Police, Kompol Reza Fahlevi said the five perpetrators had the initials H (42), BN (33), MA (34), AT (38) and E (41) were arrested on Jalan KH.M Hasan, Teluknaga, Tangerang Regency, last Thursday, April 27. Reza explained that his party moved to investigate after receiving reports of lobster seed smuggling. They are very neat in the sense of carrying out the process in ways that we find in difficult ways. But armed with information from the community we managed to secure 5 perpetrators," Reza told reporters at the Soekarno Hatta Airport Police, Tuesday, May 2. Reza also explained the modus operandi carried out by the perpetrators, namely by utilizing cargo services. In the process they made a kind of camouflage that would be sent and closed with other objects to trick officers.

"The total today is approximately 38,000. From the results of coordination with friends from the Ministry, the value converted into rupiah is 4.1 billion rupiahs," he said.Regarding the role of the perpetrators, continued Reza, one of them is buying lobster seeds to farmers at low prices. Then it was developed and packaged until finally it was sold to Vietnam. As repackaging, the task is different. Types of evidence are sufficient for sand lobsters, pearls that become idols,' he said. The perpetrators are accused of layered articles on animal and plant quarantine with a maximum imprisonment of 8 years and a fine of Rp. 1.5 billion.