RI woman jailed in HK

RI woman jailed in HK

HONG KONG: An Indonesian woman has received a record jail term of 19 and a half years for attempting to smuggle US$2.7 million worth of ecstasy pills into Hong Kong, a report said on Saturday.

The penalty was the highest term ever passed for an offender importing the drug into the territory, the South China Morning Post reported.

Suen Yung-yung, 39, was given the lengthy jail sentence for trying to import 9.75 kilograms of the drug -- or more than 60,000 pills -- hidden in two water heaters flown in from Jakarta, it said.

Her 42-year-old accomplice, Kusnadi Ridwan, received a sentence of 13 years and four months after pleading guilty to conspiring to smuggle the ecstasy between June 1 and Sept. 11 2000. -- AFP