Medan District Court Judge Sentenced To Death 3 Defendants Of Courier 52.5 Kilograms Of Shabu

Chief Judge Abdul Hadi Nasution (central) read out the verdict to six defendants of a drug network at the Medan District Court, North Sumatra, Wednesday (8/5/2024). (ANTARA/M. Sahbainy Nasution)

The panel of judges at the Medan District Court sentenced three defendants to death, namely Al Riza, Hanisah and Maimun because they were proven to be drug couriers of 52.5 kilograms of methamphetamine and 323,822 ecstasy pills.

"As for the defendants Hamzah, Nasrullah and Mustafa were sentenced to life imprisonment," said Chief Judge Abdul Hadi Nasution when reading the verdict at the Medan District Court, North Sumatra, as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, May 8.

Abdul Hadi continued that the panel of judges believed that the six defendants were proven and guilty of violating Article 114 paragraph (2) in conjunction with 132 paragraph (1) of the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics as the primary indictment.

He said the point of the article was that the six defendants were guilty of committing a criminal act of conspiracy to become intermediaries for the sale and purchase of narcotics class one in the form of non-plants that exceeded five grams.

Abdul Hadi explained that the aggravating punishment was that the six defendants did not support the government's program in eradicating drugs, the crime was an extraordinary crime and a national network.

"Meanwhile, the mitigating factors for the six defendants were not found," he said.

After reading the verdict, the panel of judges gave the public prosecutor and the defendant's legal adviser to accept or appeal against the decision.

This decision is different from the demands of the Public Prosecutor of the Medan District Attorney Rizkie Andriani Harahap, who demanded that the six defendants who were couriered for methamphetamine be sentenced to death.

In his indictment, Rizkie said that on Saturday, October 22, 2022, Hanisah together with Maimun, Salman (DPO) and Erul (DPO) met in Malaysia to discuss buying and selling methamphetamine and ecstasy pills.

"Hanisah and Erul as buyers of narcotics agreed to conduct drug transactions distributed from Malaysia to Medan to be delivered to Palembang, South Sumatra," he said.

Then, on April 9, 2023, Maimun contacted Hanisah to look for a car to Palembang. Then, ERul bought a car for Rp. 200 million as a means of transportation.

Furthermore, on August 5, 2023, the defendant Hanisah asked the defendant for Rp. 100 million. Then Hanisah asked Erul for another Rp. 240 million to the account of the defendant Nasrullah, ordered by the defendant Al Riza, husband from Hanisah.

"The remaining Rp140 million was transferred to the defendant Maimun, and asked that Hanisah find a warehouse before being delivered to Palembang," said Rizkie.

After that, Hanisah contacted the defendant Mustafa to look for a warehouse located in Medan Sunggal District, Medan.

In short, on August 8, 2023, the defendant Al Riza took Hamzah and Narsullah to the warehouse to take the evidence to its destination.

"Then the Indonesian National Narcotics Agency received information about the circulation of methamphetamine and ecstasy pills in Medan Sunggal District, Medan," said Rizkie.

Furthermore, officers from the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) made arrests and confiscated evidence of methamphetamine and ecstasy pills, as well as development to find other perpetrators.