Singaporean gets 7 years in jail

Singaporean gets 7 years in jail

TANGERANG (JP): A Singaporean was sentenced by Tangerang
District Court yesterday to seven years in jail and ordered to
pay Rp 50 million for attempting to smuggle 14,840 Ecstasy pills
through Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.

Presiding judge Mokoginta said in his ruling that the
defendant, Yeo Wae Ming, 36, was arrested by security officers at
the airport's Terminal D on July 30, last year.

"The officers found he had brought with him 9,900 blue-colored
Ecstasy pills and 4,940 purple-colored ones," he said.

The defendant had disembarked from a Thai Airlines' flight
from Paris via Bangkok, Mokoginta said.

Yeo Wae Ming was found guilty of violating Article 55 of the
Criminal Code and Article 63 of the 1997 Psychotropic Law. (41)