Businessmen face Ecstasy charges

Businessmen face Ecstasy charges

SEMARANG, Central Java: The immigration office has barred 10
businessmen, charged with smuggling 108,290 Ecstasy pills, from
traveling abroad.

Head of the office Sri Triswojo said yesterday he would revoke
the businessmen's passports if the police investigation now
underway found them guilty.

The city police said the pills were illegally imported from
Hong Kong, Thailand, Germany, Pakistan and the Netherlands.

"Our law does not discriminate. We will crush those who commit
this crime," Semarang city police chief Col. Soewondo said.

He said the quantity of the illegal pills found by the
immigration office could be the biggest in the country so far.
(har/amd)