Zarina dossier handed over to city prosecutor<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): City police officially handed over well-known
\ndrug suspect Zarina Mirafsur and evidence from her case to the
\nJakarta Prosecutor's Office on Monday.<\/p>\n
Under the escort of at least five police officers, Zarina
\narrived in a minibus at the prosecutor's office on Jl. H.R.
\nRasuna Said in South Jakarta at 2:55 p.m.<\/p>\n
The transfer of the suspect and evidence follows the police's
\nsubmission of the completed dossier on the case to the
\nprosecutor's office last week.<\/p>\n
Zarina was transported from Tangerang Women's Penitentiary,
\nsome 35 kilometers to the west of Jakarta, aboard a vehicle
\nbelonging to the prosecutor's office.<\/p>\n
Scores of journalists covered the every move of the 27-year-
\nold suspect, dubbed the Queen of Ecstasy by the media following
\nher 1996 arrest for storing some 30,000 ecstasy pills.<\/p>\n
Attired in a long blue dress and sandals, Zarina emerged from
\nthe minibus and entered the prosecutor's office under the glare
\nof TV lights and explosion of camera flashes.<\/p>\n
Y.W. Mere, head of the general crimes section of the
\nprosecutor's office, received Zarina and the five police
\nofficers.<\/p>\n
During a brief meeting, Mere said Enriani Fachruddin and Hasan
\nMadani would prosecute the case.<\/p>\n
Enriani then questioned Zarina in Mere's office while Mere
\nexamined the evidence submitted by the police.<\/p>\n
The man leading the police investigation, Capt. Ilyas Saad
\nfrom the city police's narcotics unit, explained in detail the
\nevidence seized during the raid on a West Jakarta hotel and
\napartment complex last month.<\/p>\n
During the early morning raid on Nov. 11, police arrested
\nZarina and nine other suspects in five apartments in the hotel.<\/p>\n
Police confiscated 835 ecstasy pills, 51.2 grams of shabu-
\nshabu (crystal methamphetamine), 28 pornographic movies, six
\nbongs and two small scales.<\/p>\n
In the apartment in which Zarina was arrested along with her
\nboyfriend, Ahian Santoso, alias Yeye, police seized 0.3 grams of
\nshabu-shabu and four Happy Five tranquilizer pills.<\/p>\n
Police listed the evidence in Zarina's case on Monday as one
\ngram of shabu-shabu, four ecstasy pills, tin foil and
\nparaphernalia used to smoke drugs.<\/p>\n
Mere said his office had looked over the dossier and decided
\nthe case met the requirements for prosecution.<\/p>\n
"Our prosecutors have studied the dossier and we will question
\nZarina and study the available evidence," he said, adding that
\nhis office could complete the indictment and file it in the West
\nJakarta District Court in the next two to three days.<\/p>\n
"With the transfer of the defendant and evidence, we have
\ncompleted all the procedures to bring the case to court," he
\nsaid, adding that his office might present 10 witnesses during
\nthe trial.<\/p>\n
After being questioned at the prosecutor's office, Zarina was
\nreturned to Tangerang Women's Penitentiary where she must serve
\nout the remainder of the sentence from her 1996 arrest after her
\nconditional release was revoked. She is scheduled for release in
\nOctober next year. (asa)<\/p>",
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