Australian arrested for timber smuggling

Australian arrested for timber smuggling

AMBON, Maluku: West Southeast Maluku police personnel have foiled
an attempt to smuggle hundreds of timber planks to Darwin,
Australia.

A suspect, an Australian citizen named CJ, had been
arrested recently and he is now being detained by West Southeast
Maluku police, said Comr. Rudy Heru Susanto. Besides arresting
CJ, the police also confiscated 303 planks of lenggua wood, 27
planks of merbau and seven planks of iron wood stored in his boat
Dolphin, said Rudy. The Dolphin, which belonged to CJ, was also
seized for investigation purposes.

"The suspect was arrested as he attempted to ship the timber
planks to Australia without proper documents," said Rudy on
Saturday. The timber planks are three meters long and five
centimeters wide. -- JP