TANGERANG - Soekarno Hatta Airport Customs and Excise thwarted the smuggling of 4.4 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine from Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The perpetrator disguised the crystal methamphetamine with floor ceramics, which was sent by one of the deposit service companies at the Soekarno-Hatta Airport Cargo Terminal.
"The perpetrator with the initials HM is a foreign citizen (WNA) from Iran," said Head of the Soekarno-Hatta Customs Office, Gatot Sugeng Wibowo in his statement, Thursday, November 14.
Gatot explained that the case was revealed starting from his party's suspicion of a package sent from Dubai to Jakarta at the Soekarno-Hatta Airport Cargo Terminal, with the recipient of the HM perpetrator aimed at a hotel in Jakarta.
The package contains descriptions of artificial grass, artificial carpet albums, wall parkets, wallpaper albums, epoxy tilings, and stolen albums. Then the officer checked the item.
(Apparently) two ceramic floors were found which were notified as epoxy tilings. The two ceramic floors suspected of containing narcotics weighed 4,400 grams, "he said.
Then, the ceramic floor is carried out to be cleaned up for sample tests using narcotics and laboratories. As a result, there is a drug content of Methampetamine type.
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"Based on the results of the test, positive for methampetamine or methamphetamine," he said.
On that basis, HM was arrested, then taken to Customs and Excise at Soetta Airport for examination.
"Based on the examination of the communication tools of the HM perpetrators, if the control of the methamphetamine is someone with the initials M who is in Iran," he said
For his actions, the perpetrator was charged with Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics with a maximum threat of the death penalty or life imprisonment.
"Currently the suspect and evidence are handed over to the Polda Metro Jaya for further development," he said
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