Smuggled garlic to be incinerated

Smuggled garlic to be incinerated

PALEMBANG, South Sumatera (JP): Tons of smuggled garlic
recently discovered by the Musi Rawas police precinct will soon
be incinerated, Police Chief Lt. Col. Agustiono Dechan said.

The 10.5 tons of garlic was seized during two police raids on
trucks on some major roads in the past two weeks.

The first raid, codenamed Elephant, resulted in the
confiscation of 2.5 tons of garlic, which allegedly originated
from Pekanbaru in Riau province. The second raid yielded eight
tons of garlic from a truck en route from Medan to Jakarta.

The smugglers covered the garlic with other goods and
sprinkled it with coffee beans to reduce its strong scent, Antara
reported. (14)