Sugar smugglers arrested in Buton

Sugar smugglers arrested in Buton

KENDARI, Southeast Sulawesi: Buton Police in Southeast
Sulawesi recently confiscated two tons of raw sugar shipped from
India, and arrested four people.

L.M, one of the four people arrested, was the owner of the raw
sugar.

Chief of Buton Police Adj. Sr. Comr. Ali Pranaka said on
Wednesday that the raw sugar was confiscated after police
received a tipoff that a ship in Bau-Bau port was carrying
smuggled sugar.

The police raided the ship and after investigation it was
discovered later that the sugar had been carried from India to
Bau-Bau without proper documentation.

The police then swiftly arrested the owner of the sugar and
three other people who were accused of helping him smuggle the
sugar. "The dossier has been handed over to the prosecutor's
office," he said. -- JP