Probe into envoy dropped<\/p>\n
AMSTERDAM (AFP): A court here rejected Friday an application
\nfor bail made by lawyers for a pilot of Indonesia's Garuda
\nairline, who is suspected of involvement in trafficking the drug
\necstasy, legal sources said.<\/p>\n
Mohammad Said, 49, was arrested on Sept. 28 last year in
\npossession of some 6,400 tablets of the drug ecstasy, just before
\nhe was due to take off from Amsterdam airport on a flight to
\nBali.<\/p>\n
His lawyers had applied for bail on the grounds that his
\nimprisonment was causing psychological suffering to his wife. The
\ncourt gave no motive for refusing bail.<\/p>\n
Earlier Friday Dutch prosecutors dropped an investigation into
\nIndonesian embassy staff believed implicated in the affair for
\nlack of evidence.<\/p>\n
Jakarta had accused the Dutch authorities of trying to
\npoliticize the case by implicating embassy personnel.<\/p>\n
Dutch officials denied that the foreign ministry had put
\npressure on prosecutors in the case to avoid harming diplomatic
\nrelations with the country's former colony.<\/p>",
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