Drug Recidivist In Ambon Sentenced To 11 Years In Prison Plus Fines Rp1 Billion, If You Can't Pay Add 3 Months Of Confinement

Ambon District Court Building, Friday (15/9/2023). ANTARA/daniel

AMBON - The Ambon District Court judges sentenced Fuad Hajar Thaha (35), a defendant in a drug case who is also a recidivist of a similar case.

"The trial, stated that Fuat Hajar Thaha has been legally and convincingly proven guilty of violating Article 112 paragraph (2) in conjunction with Article 144 of Law Number 35 of 1999 concerning Narcotics," said Chief Justice Orpha Martina in a verdict hearing at the Ambon District Court, Maluku, quoted by ANTARA, Friday, September 15.

The defendant was also sentenced to pay a fine of Rp. 1 billion, subsidiary to three months in prison.

There are also things that incriminate the defendant being punished for not supporting the government's program in eradicating drug trafficking and abuse, and the defendant is a recidivist.

Meanwhile, the mitigating factor is that the defendant is polite and admits his actions.

In his previous trial, Public Prosecutor Ela Ubleuw asked the defendant to be sentenced to 11 years in prison, a fine of Rp. 1 billion, subsidiary to six months in prison for possessing, storing, or selling narcotics class one, not shabu-type plants weighing more than 10 grams.

The defendant's actions were discovered since July 15, 2022 when officers from the Maluku BNNP received information from the public that a package of goods had been sent from Jakarta to the city of Tual using goods delivery services.

In the package contains class one narcotics instead of plants weighing more than 5 grams.

From this information, Maluku BNNP officers conducted an investigation and on June 17, 2022, the package arrived in Ambon.

The witnesses then worked with J&T to jointly supervise the package up to Tual City and arrived on Saturday (18/7), so that company employees there were invited to work together to find out who owned the package.

Then on June 29, 2022, the company courier delivered the package to the address of the drug package owner and it was found that it belonged to the defendant.

The officer who had been stalking the defendant immediately secured the person concerned at his home on Dullah Selatan Island, Tual City.

The defendant tried to escape when he was arrested, but was finally arrested by officers and confiscated evidence.

After reading the verdict by the panel of judges, the defendant immediately declared an appeal so that this case did not yet have permanent legal force.