Police Unload Liquid Cocaine Smuggling From Portugal, 2 People Become Suspects

Dirresnarkoba Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Hengki (center) during a press conference, Monday (25/3/2024). ANTARA/Ilham Kausar

Polda Metro Jaya and Customs and Excise thwarted an attempt to smuggle 2.5 liters of liquid cocaine from Portugal.

Director of Drug Investigation at Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Hengki said that in the smuggling effort the mode used was to put the liquid cocaine into a shampoo bottle.

"The modus operandi of these suspects is to simulate liquid cocaine with bottles as if we are processing shampoo for our bath, but in it is liquid cocaine," Hengki told reporters, Monday, March 25.

In this case, two Portuguese nationals, RPAV and FMGS, were named suspects.

The disclosure of the liquid cocaine smuggling attempt was revealed on March 17, 2024. Starting from the suspicion of the Soekarno-Hatta Airport Customs and Excise officer with the suspect's luggage RPAV.

So, the officers examined it and found three bottles of shampoo containing liquid cocaine.

"We have secured the suspect, the initials RPAP, a Portuguese citizen who acts as a courier. Where this courier was taken by himself by plane from Portugal to Soekarno Hatta airport," he said.

Then, the findings were developed and led to the recipients who were in Bali. It is known that FMGS was the recipient of the liquid cocaine. FMGS was immediately arrested

"We develop prospective recipients, recipients in Bali are foreign nationals as well as Portuguese citizens, their role as recipients, namely we secure FMGS," he said.

From the disclosure, confiscated a shampoo bottle that reads Continuente containing liquid cocaine weighing 977 ml or 1,005.4 grams, a shampoo bottle that says Protex contains liquid cocaine weighing 709.3 ml or 729.7 grams, and a Treseme bottle containing liquid cocaine weighing 912.4 ml or 938.7 grams in the bottle.

In this case, the two suspects are charged with Article 114 Paragraph 2 Subsidiary Article 114 paragraph 1 over Subsidiary Article 114 paragraph 1 of the Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics with a minimum penalty of 5 years and a maximum of 20 years in prison.