Police question two S'poreans

JAKARTA (JP): Two Singaporeans are now under police investigation for receiving a package from overseas which contain hundreds of Ecstacy pills.

City Police Spokesman Lt. Col. E. Aritonang said yesterday the two had been questioned since Monday following the police's finding on the drugs package which was sent from Singapore by an airfreight cargo.

The two people, identified as Richard Zheng, 46, and Hanawati, 35, were found in the house where the drugs package was addressed, Aritonang said.

"The package was dedicated to Richard, who lives on Jl. Kawi 2D, Mangga Dua, Central Jakarta. Witnessed by Richard and Hanawati, the police opened the package on Monday. The box contain 390 Ecstacy pills stored in some chocolate candy packagings," he said.

Aritonang said both Richard and Hanawati claimed that they did not know the Singapore address from which the package came from.

"Both Richard and the woman claimed that they were set up by the third party who want them to be in trouble be sending them the drugs," he said.

According to Aritonang, Richard was given special attention because he actually managed a company on Jl. Pangeran Jayakarta C5/129, North Jakarta.

The government regulation prohibits foreigners from directly possessing or running business in Indonesia.

The police were still investigating the package which sender address was not written and examining the pills which type was considered as rare. (04)