Probe into envoy dropped

Probe into envoy dropped

AMSTERDAM (AFP): A court here rejected Friday an application
for bail made by lawyers for a pilot of Indonesia's Garuda
airline, who is suspected of involvement in trafficking the drug
ecstasy, legal sources said.

Mohammad Said, 49, was arrested on Sept. 28 last year in
possession of some 6,400 tablets of the drug ecstasy, just before
he was due to take off from Amsterdam airport on a flight to
Bali.

His lawyers had applied for bail on the grounds that his
imprisonment was causing psychological suffering to his wife. The
court gave no motive for refusing bail.

Earlier Friday Dutch prosecutors dropped an investigation into
Indonesian embassy staff believed implicated in the affair for
lack of evidence.

Jakarta had accused the Dutch authorities of trying to
politicize the case by implicating embassy personnel.

Dutch officials denied that the foreign ministry had put
pressure on prosecutors in the case to avoid harming diplomatic
relations with the country's former colony.