Drug smuggling foiled at airport

Drug smuggling foiled at airport

TANGERANG: Customs and excise officers foiled the smuggling of
28.5 kilograms of marijuana from Banda Aceh at the Soekarno-Hatta
International Airport last week.

Customs and Excise Director General Permana Agung said on
Thursday the drug senders and receivers were still being
investigated by the police.

He said the senders sent the marijuana from Banda Aceh on two
occasions in different packages using special express postal
services on June 27 and June 30.

In order to deceive officers, the senders mixed the
marijuana with coffee, salted fish and chips, which were wrapped
neatly in packages covered with carbon paper.

Officers in charge of supervision at the airport's airmail
exchange office and officers in charge of the airport's domestic
lost and found section became suspicious of the unclaimed
packages that had been there for a week, he said.

Permana said over the last three months, the customs and
excise office had managed to foil 14 similar cases.--JP