Jambi Polairud Secures 53 Tons Of Rice Transport Ship Without Documents

The ship carrying basic necessities without official documents from quarantine. ANTARA/Nangang Mairiadi.

The Jambi Regional Police's joint team and Polairud secured a motorcycle ship carrying approximately 53,371 kilograms or 53.37 tons of rice of various brands and hundreds of sacks of red and white onions, green beans and dry bilis fish without official documents from quarantine.

"In this case, the investigative team has named two suspects in a quarantine case whose ship was secured while crossing the waters of Nipah Panjang, East Tanjungjabung Regency, Jambi," said Head of Gakum Ditpolairud Jambi Regional Police Ipda Harianto as reported by ANTARA, Thursday, October 9.

The team is currently filing the case of two suspects on behalf of Ibrahim (54) as the captain of the ship KM Resona Gt25 and Arifin (26) crew and examining witnesses.

The team found a ship passing through the waters of Nipah Panjang, East Tanjunjabung and then an inspection was carried out on the cargo of the KM Resona GT25 ship.

The cargo on the KM Resona GT25 ship is not equipped with a syah letter document (the quarantine health certificate).

The evidence found on the ship and did not have official documents, namely 29 sacks of glutinous rice or in a size of 25 kg per sack, four sacks of green beans, 3.429 sacks of shallots.

Then there are 53 sacks of garlic, eight sacks of dried bilis fish, 6.845 sacks of Padang rice measuring 5 kg and 10 kg pe sak 7.64 sacks of Padang rice measuring 25 kg per sack, 830 sacks of Minang Jaya rice (25 kg per sack, 9.3 sacks of Padang chef's rice measuring 25 kg per sack.

Furthermore, it was secured along with evidence from the ship KM Resona GT 25 along with the documents and then reported to the leadership to be confiscated as evidence in the quarantine case.