TANJUNG SELOR - Bulungan City Resort Police (Polresta), North Kalimantan (Kaltara), managed to thwart the smuggling of 55 sacks or co-wear on kilometer 12 of the Trans Kaltara-Kaltim axis road on Wednesday, July 30.
Kapolresta Bulungan, Kombes Rofiko Yunianto, through the Head of Criminal Investigation Unit, Kompol Irwan revealed, in addition to the police's 55 collis ball press, he also secured a truck carrying illegal goods suspected of being from Malaysia.
"We have secured 55 balls containing used clothes, no one has been named as a suspect. We have examined two people, namely the driver with the initials A and his colleague, a woman with the initials A, who is also being examined as a witness," said Kompol Irwan accompanied by PS Head of Public Relations of the Bulungan Police, Iptu Magdalena Lawai, and Head of Propam Polresta Bulungan Iptu Jumono Raharjo, Thursday, July 31.
"As a result of the inspection, the driver admitted that he had brought the ball press three times, at this time we are still investigating who the owner and recipient of the goods smuggled into Samarinda City and Balikpapan (Kaltim)," added the Head of Criminal Investigation Unit.
Irwan emphasized that the smuggling of ball press violates Article 112 Paragraph (2) of Law Number 7 of 2014 concerning Trade, with a maximum penalty of 5 years in prison for importers involved.
"To reveal who was involved in smuggling this illegal item, the police are conducting an investigation," he said.
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Kompol Irwan added that apart from the driver and his partner, the police had also examined 11 other people as witnesses.
"We examined 11 witnesses, the type of truck carrying a green balpres, with stickers in front of the windshield that read Hafis. Regarding where this illegal item came from, the truck driver came from East Kalimantan who did work as a cross-provincial driver," he concluded.
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