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Indonesia Police Claim to Bust Drug Runner of ‘International Syndicate’
Yuli Krisna & Bayu Marhaenjati | February 09, 2012

Evidence gathered at the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) in Jakarta on Wednesday. The BNN said it seized 12 kilograms of methamphetamine. Suara Pembaruan Photo/Joanito De Saojoao Evidence gathered at the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) in Jakarta on Wednesday. The BNN said it seized 12 kilograms of methamphetamine. Suara Pembaruan Photo/Joanito De Saojoao
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shytallnight
1:48pm Feb 9, 2012

....most will end up in Stadium club, Jakarta.

indonuts
1:22pm Feb 9, 2012

Padt: About 20% will be publicly destroyed. The rest are sold to consumers in clubs. Quite a known fact in the industry.

padt
12:33pm Feb 9, 2012

Just out of interest - after the photo ops. and the television crews and the reporters have left the room - and the drugs are all packed up again - what happens to them then?

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Bandung. A joint team from the Bandung Customs Office and the West Java Police has foiled a drug smuggling attempt, confiscating more than 1,000 ecstasy pills believed to have originated from the Netherlands.

The pills, estimated to have a street value of Rp 350 million ($40,000), were stashed in a package delivered to a local post office on Saturday.

“Based on our investigation, we found that there was a drug smuggling attempt,” the West Java customs office’s enforcement chief, Agus Wahyono, said at a news conference on Wednesday.

The customs office immediately alerted police, who apprehended the package’s recipient — a 60-year-old man identified only as M.L.

“We suspect that [M.L.] is part of an international syndicate, but the suspect has so far refused to disclose who the senders are,” the West Java Police’s director for narcotics, Sr. Comr. Hafriono, told the same conference.

“We suspect that [M.L.] is planning on using the pills as an ingredient to make lower-quality pills. The pills are of high quality, so maybe he could have produced twice the number of pills by mixing them with other ingredients,” Hafriono said.

Separately, the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) said it had foiled another drug smuggling syndicate, confiscating 12 kilograms of methamphetamine with a street value of Rp 24 billion.

“The meth came from Medan and was transported to Jakarta by land. Based on our analysis, the meth is produced in Malaysia and Iran,” the agency’s enforcement director, Benny Mamoto, said at BNN headquarters in Jakarta on Wednesday.

Benny said that on Feb. 1, BNN officials arrested two suspects, A. and M.Y., in Jelambar, West Jakarta. The suspects attempted to flee using their car, but a BNN vehicle rammed them and prevented their escape.

“From the suspects’ admission, the drugs came from M., who lives in Medan,” he said.

M. gave the drugs to A.N., a truck driver, and his assistant H. Both men transported the methamphetamine to Jakarta by stashing it underneath piles of toys in the truck.

Upon their arrival, A.N. called A. asking him to pick up the drugs. BNN officers arrested A.N. and H. in Tangerang.

“Based on A.N.’s admission, he had transported drugs to A. twice. The first time he got Rp 30 million, which he split in half with H. This time both of them got Rp 30 million each,” Benny said.

BNN officers also arrested I.S. at his home in Cempaka Mas, Central Jakarta. “In purchasing the drugs from M., A. always used I.S.’s bank account,” Benny said, adding that I.S. faced charges of money laundering and being an accessory to a drug syndicate.

BNN is in pursuit of M. with the help of North Sumatra police.