Dutch woman arrested for smugling Ecstasy

Dutch woman arrested for smugling Ecstasy

JAKARTA (JP): Airport customs officers have arrested a
25-year-old Dutch woman for smuggling 11,370 Ecstasy pills into
the country.

The confiscation of the pills, worth over Rp 1 billion in an
illegal transaction, is said to be the biggest ever seizure in a
single raid against Ecstasy traffickers in Indonesia.

The woman, identified only by her initials Arb, was arrested
Sunday morning at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport after
customs officers found pills hidden at the bottom of her black
suitcase.

According to Nisfu Chasbullah, chief of the airport's customs
office, the suspect had just arrived from Amsterdam via Singapore
aboard KLM flight 831 when the X-ray inspection revealed the
hidden pills.

Yesterday, police said that they have not been informed of the
case.

"I have no idea about the case which I only learned about
after reading today's newspapers," National Police Spokesman
Brig. Gen. Nurfaizi told The Jakarta Post yesterday.

Nurfaizi explained that several crime investigation officers
could not be reached yesterday evening.

According to Nisfu, the Dutch woman will be charged with
smuggling illegal goods into the country as stipulated in the
customs rules as well as possessing drugs that have not been
registered with the Indonesian Ministry of Health .

The woman is the third Dutch national arrested here for drug
trafficking this month.

On April 4, a Dutchman was arrested for attempting to sell
1,000 Ecstasy pills to an undercover policeman at a luxury hotel.
According to the police, another 5,315 pills were found later at
his rented house here.

On April 9, a second Dutchman was arrested at the same airport
after he was found trying to smuggle in 3,900 Ecstasy pills
stashed in his shoes.(bsr)