Police Dismantle 3 Big Networks Of Indonesian Drugs, Seize 1 Ton Of Shabu-Ganja

The National Police together with the regional police and related agencies held an operation to crack down on narcotics networks for two months. (Ist)

JAKARTA - The National Police together with the regional police and related agencies carried out an operation to crack down on narcotics networks for two months. As a result, it was revealed that three international networks with evidence of marijuana and methamphetamine weighing 1 ton each.

"The evidence that was successfully secured was 1.7 tons of methamphetamine, then 1.12 tons of marijuana," said the Head of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police, Komjen Wahyu Widada, to reporters, Friday, November 1.

Not only methamphetamine and marijuana, in a joint operation involving the Attorney General's Office, the National Narcotics Agency (BNN), PPATK and the Directorate General of Customs and Excise from September to October, were also confiscated by various other types of narcotics.

The details are ecstasy 357,731 pills, ketamina 932.3 grams, double L 127,000 grains, cocaine 2.5 kilograms, synthetic tobacco 9 kilograms, hasish weighing 25.5 kilograms, MDMA 4,110 grams, mepherdrone 8,157 grains and happy water 2,974.9 grams.

From that action, there were 80 cases of drug trafficking by naming 136 suspects.

Then, regarding the three international drug networks that were revealed, Wahyu continued, one of them was the Fredy Pratama group.

"The FP networks operating on 14 are North Sumatra, Riau, Lampung, Banten, Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java, Yogyakarta, West Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, South Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi," he said.

Then, the HS group operating in 5 provinces and the H network controlled by three brothers namely HDK, DS alais T and TS alias AK operating in Jambi Province.

In addition, Wahyu also conveyed that from the financial analysis carried out by PPATK, the circulation of money and transactions from the three networks reached Rp59.2 trillion.

In detail, the Fredy Pratama network reached Rp56 trillion, the HS network was Rp2.1 trillion, and the H network was Rp1.1 trillion.

To provide a deterrent effect and impoverish drug dealers, Articles of Money Laundering (TPPU) will be applied. Of the three networks, his party has confiscated assets worth 869.7 billion.

"In order to provide a deterrent effect, for drug network perpetrators, we apply the Money Laundering Article to impoverish and seize assets from the proceeds of their crimes," said Wahyu.