Jambi - Jambi Regional Police together with the Ditipidnarkoba Bareskrim Polri and the Banten Police thwarted the smuggling of 264.7 kilograms of liquid methamphetamine from a suspected foreign national.

Jambi Police Chief Inspector General Rusdi Hartono said that based on the investigation and profiling of the international network to the prison, it was known that there was a type of liquid methamphetamine that would be sent to Jambi which would be received by inmates at Mount Sindur Bogor. Further information will be methamphetamine pick-up in Banten.

Furthermore, the Jambi Police and Bareskrim Ditresnarkoba teams carried out surveillance which was suspected of picking up methamphetamine using a four-wheeled vehicle.

During surveillance, information was received from fishermen that foreigners were stranded on Tinjil Island and many members of the National Police were dressed in official arts along the port in Wanasalam District, Lebak Regency, Banten, causing the Jambi Police and Foreigners to escape.

Furthermore, the Jambi Police's Narcotics Directorate team immediately chartered a ship and pursued a foreigner with the initials NB who was an Iranian citizen.

Rusdi explained that Tuesday (2/5) at around 04.00 WIB right in the Tinjil Port Area of Banten Bay, Pandeglang Regency, Banten, there was a Speedboat and a fishing boat moving from the coast to the sea.

When the officers approached the fishing boat, one person jumped into the sea. After a search was carried out inside. The fishing boat was found five jerry cans of liquid methamphetamine with foreign nationals.

Furthermore, the evidence and the perpetrators were secured to the Jambi Regional Police for further investigation.

From the evidence of liquid methamphetamine amounting to 264.7 kilograms, if processed by experts, it can produce 750 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine.

Meanwhile, if the economic value of the methamphetamine is calculated, then the evidence of 264.7 kg of crystal methamphetamine is worth Rp. 344.1 billion and the Jambi Police can save 1.05 million people.

The perpetrators were charged with Article 114 paragraph 2 and Article 112 paragraph 2 of the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning narcotics.


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