South Kalimantan Police Reveals Fredy Pratama Network Recruit Package Couriers

Director of Drug Investigation at the South Kalimantan Police, Kombes Kelana Jaya, accompanied by the Head of Public Relations of the South Kalimantan Police, Kombes Adam Erwindi/DOK ANTARA.

BANJARMASIN - The Narcotics Directorate of the South Kalimantan Police revealed the network of international drug kingpins Fredy Pratama, the controller of 20 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine. He often recruits package couriers in various cities. "The results of our investigation analysis obtained on the profiles of the suspects turned out to have experience in delivery services or courier packages from shipping services companies," said the Director of Drug Investigation at the South Kalimantan Police, Kombes Kelana Jaya, in Banjarmasin, Antara, Tuesday, July 23. In addition, this network also recruits former online taxi drivers who are considered to have experience in terms of mobility on the road and control an area. Kelana also emphasized that she did not intend to decridit a profession, but only as a reminder for anyone not to be tempted by persuasion to get involved in drug trafficking. "We convey that this aims to make people educated, so that it is not easy to get involved in drug trafficking," he said. Moreover, the cash promised or received by these drug couriers, said Kelana, would never be commensurate with the threat of criminal punishment if caught. "Don't be tempted by any payment, let's fight drug trafficking together to save us all from the destruction of the next generation due to drugs," said Kelana. Previously, a team led by the Head of Sub-Directorate III of the Narcotics Directorate of the South Kalimantan Police AKBP Ade Harri Sistiawan arrested five suspects with the initials ARE, residents of South Kalimantan and four other residents of Bandung, West Java with the initials MRF, DH, MRM and RSH in circulation of 20 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine on Tuesday (9/7). The five perpetrators were detected moving places to circulate methamphetamine with an inter-provincial network affiliated with Fredy Pratama getting supplies of these illicit goods from Malaysia that entered through West Kalimantan. Before being caught in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, the five perpetrators had supplied methamphetamine to Southeast Sulawesi, East Kalimantan and West Kalimantan.

In its mobility, this network is very neat with the similarity of the modus operandi of using the BlackBerry Messenger Enterprise application communication facilities and the Signal application.