Bring A Drug Filler, 2 Foreigners From Iran And Mexico Arrested At Soetta Airport

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TANGERANG - Type C Customs and Excise at Soekarno Hatta Airport and police officers have arrested two foreign nationals (WNA) and one Indonesian citizen (WNI) with the initials RA.

Head of Customs and Excise Type C of Soekarno Hatta Airport, Finari Manan, said that two foreigners were different countries, respectively. RLH comes from Mexico, while EK is an Iranian citizen.

Finari also said that the first action took place at Terminal 3 of Soekarno Hatta Airport, Tangerang City, Friday, August 19, in the afternoon.

"RLH was found to have a suitcase with a wall containing a boycotta methamphetamine or methamphetamine amounting to approximately 300 grams," said Finari in her statement, Wednesday, August 31.

From the suspect's confession, he continued, RLH was ordered by an international drug network from Mexico to retrieve a suitcase containing methamphetamine from someone in Turkey.

"The results of these findings were then followed up for 'control delivery' and succeeded in securing an Iranian foreigner with the initials EK as a package recipient at a hotel in the West Jakarta area," he said.

In addition, Customs and Excise at Soekarno Hatta Airport together with the Directorate of Drug Investigation of the Polda Metro Jaya also revealed a case of smuggling class 1 ecstasy drugs through goods sent from Malaysia. The mode is to hide drugs in the packaging of kuaci snacks.

"A male Indonesian citizen with the initials RA who was caught as the recipient of a shipment from Malaysia with the number 32432296385, as many as 298 pills," he said.

Based on the results of the investigation, it is known that the package contains the name of a woman from China with the initials XJ who is suspected of being a former inmate in a narcotics abuse case.

"However, when the 'control delivery' was carried out, it was RA who was at the address of the package and not XJ," he added.