Dutch woman arrested for smugling Ecstasy<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Airport customs officers have arrested a
\n25-year-old Dutch woman for smuggling 11,370 Ecstasy pills into
\nthe country.<\/p>\n
The confiscation of the pills, worth over Rp 1 billion in an
\nillegal transaction, is said to be the biggest ever seizure in a
\nsingle raid against Ecstasy traffickers in Indonesia.<\/p>\n
The woman, identified only by her initials Arb, was arrested
\nSunday morning at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport after
\ncustoms officers found pills hidden at the bottom of her black
\nsuitcase.<\/p>\n
According to Nisfu Chasbullah, chief of the airport's customs
\noffice, the suspect had just arrived from Amsterdam via Singapore
\naboard KLM flight 831 when the X-ray inspection revealed the
\nhidden pills.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, police said that they have not been informed of the
\ncase.<\/p>\n
\"I have no idea about the case which I only learned about
\nafter reading today's newspapers,\" National Police Spokesman
\nBrig. Gen. Nurfaizi told The Jakarta Post yesterday.<\/p>\n
Nurfaizi explained that several crime investigation officers
\ncould not be reached yesterday evening.<\/p>\n
According to Nisfu, the Dutch woman will be charged with
\nsmuggling illegal goods into the country as stipulated in the
\ncustoms rules as well as possessing drugs that have not been
\nregistered with the Indonesian Ministry of Health .<\/p>\n
The woman is the third Dutch national arrested here for drug
\ntrafficking this month.<\/p>\n
On April 4, a Dutchman was arrested for attempting to sell
\n1,000 Ecstasy pills to an undercover policeman at a luxury hotel.
\nAccording to the police, another 5,315 pills were found later at
\nhis rented house here.<\/p>\n
On April 9, a second Dutchman was arrested at the same airport
\nafter he was found trying to smuggle in 3,900 Ecstasy pills
\nstashed in his shoes.(bsr)<\/p>",
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