MATARAM - The Mataram District Court sentenced a foreign citizen (WNA) from France, Ludovic Roche alias Ali, to 20 months in prison in the case of possession of 0.27 grams of methamphetamine.
Judge Kelik Trimargo at the Mataram District Court read the verdict in a trial that presented the defendant online.
"To judge and sentence the defendant Ludovic Roche alias Ali to a prison sentence of one year and eight months," said the judge as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, July 15.
The panel of judges also imposed a fine of Rp500 million with the provision that if it is not paid, it will be replaced by a 140-day imprisonment.
The judge stated that the defendant was proven to have possession or control of narcotics of the type of methamphetamine as the second indictment of the public prosecutor, namely violating Article 609 paragraph (1) letter a in conjunction with Article 20 letter c of Law Number 1 of 2023 concerning the Criminal Code (KUHP) in conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2026 concerning Criminal Adjustment.
Based on the verdict, the defendant and the public prosecutor were given seven days from the time the verdict was read to decide whether to accept or file a legal action.
Previously, the public prosecutor demanded the defendant with a prison sentence of three years without a fine.
In the indictment, the defendant is suspected of possessing one package of 0.27 grams of methamphetamine. The evidence was found when Ludovic Roche was arrested along with a resident with the initials MUB, a fisherman from Bayan District, North Lombok Regency.
The two were arrested by the North Lombok Police Narcotics Team in the Bayan area while riding a motorcycle. One package of methamphetamine was found tucked inside a cell phone package stored in the trunk of the vehicle.
Even though he was arrested with narcotics evidence, the results of the urine examination showed that Ludovic Roche was negative for methamphetamine, a substance contained in ecstasy.
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