Banjarmasin South Kalimantan Police Seize Ecstasy Of IDR 4.48 Billion

Banjarmasin Police Chief Kombes Sabana Atmojo (center)/ANTARA

BANJARMASIN - Banjarmasin Police, South Kalimantan (Kalsel) confiscated 13,697 cross-provincial ecstasy drugs with the initials AM (34) with a value of Rp4.48 billion.

"We arrested the perpetrator with the initials AM while storing this narcotics and was about to be taken to Pontianak, West Kalimantan (West Kalimantan). During the development of the case, it turned out that there were already three perpetrators from West Kalimantan waiting for a signal in Banjarmasin before bringing narcotics to West Kalimantan," said Banjarmasin Police Chief Kombes Sabana Atmojo as quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, March 26.

He said the perpetrators of AM who live in South Kalimantan were arrested in South Banjarmasin, on Monday (18/3).

Meanwhile, three other perpetrators from West Kalimantan, namely DS (30), APSS (30), and MDS (35), were arrested in South Banjarmasin, on Thursday (21/3).

"The perpetrators of AM were directed by the dealer's wife (Mama Gina) to keep this narcotics, they never met, only communicated via cell phone. Currently, we are tracing the traces of the dealer from where he came from," he said.

The perpetrators of AM and three of his colleagues admitted that they did not know the whereabouts of the dealer who provided the narcotics which had a nominal value of billions of rupiah.

In addition, the results of the investigation revealed that there had been transactions in the form of payment of initial money worth Rp. 2 billion before the narcotics were sent to West Kalimantan.

Furthermore, the remaining payments will be paid after the narcotics arrive at the recipients in Pontianak City, West Kalimantan, while the four perpetrators are given a salary of around Rp. 80 million.

The Banjarmasin Police also revealed another fact that the AM perpetrator who kept the items in Banjarmasin had intended to sell 13.5 pills of ecstasy without the knowledge of the narcotics owner. However, AM was arrested by the police.

The four suspects were charged with Article 114 paragraph 2 in conjunction with Article 132 paragraph 1 of the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 35 of 2009.