Zarina dossier handed over to city prosecutor
Zarina dossier handed over to city prosecutor
JAKARTA (JP): City police officially handed over well-known
drug suspect Zarina Mirafsur and evidence from her case to the
Jakarta Prosecutor's Office on Monday.
Under the escort of at least five police officers, Zarina
arrived in a minibus at the prosecutor's office on Jl. H.R.
Rasuna Said in South Jakarta at 2:55 p.m.
The transfer of the suspect and evidence follows the police's
submission of the completed dossier on the case to the
prosecutor's office last week.
Zarina was transported from Tangerang Women's Penitentiary,
some 35 kilometers to the west of Jakarta, aboard a vehicle
belonging to the prosecutor's office.
Scores of journalists covered the every move of the 27-year-
old suspect, dubbed the Queen of Ecstasy by the media following
her 1996 arrest for storing some 30,000 ecstasy pills.
Attired in a long blue dress and sandals, Zarina emerged from
the minibus and entered the prosecutor's office under the glare
of TV lights and explosion of camera flashes.
Y.W. Mere, head of the general crimes section of the
prosecutor's office, received Zarina and the five police
officers.
During a brief meeting, Mere said Enriani Fachruddin and Hasan
Madani would prosecute the case.
Enriani then questioned Zarina in Mere's office while Mere
examined the evidence submitted by the police.
The man leading the police investigation, Capt. Ilyas Saad
from the city police's narcotics unit, explained in detail the
evidence seized during the raid on a West Jakarta hotel and
apartment complex last month.
During the early morning raid on Nov. 11, police arrested
Zarina and nine other suspects in five apartments in the hotel.
Police confiscated 835 ecstasy pills, 51.2 grams of shabu-
shabu (crystal methamphetamine), 28 pornographic movies, six
bongs and two small scales.
In the apartment in which Zarina was arrested along with her
boyfriend, Ahian Santoso, alias Yeye, police seized 0.3 grams of
shabu-shabu and four Happy Five tranquilizer pills.
Police listed the evidence in Zarina's case on Monday as one
gram of shabu-shabu, four ecstasy pills, tin foil and
paraphernalia used to smoke drugs.
Mere said his office had looked over the dossier and decided
the case met the requirements for prosecution.
"Our prosecutors have studied the dossier and we will question
Zarina and study the available evidence," he said, adding that
his office could complete the indictment and file it in the West
Jakarta District Court in the next two to three days.
"With the transfer of the defendant and evidence, we have
completed all the procedures to bring the case to court," he
said, adding that his office might present 10 witnesses during
the trial.
After being questioned at the prosecutor's office, Zarina was
returned to Tangerang Women's Penitentiary where she must serve
out the remainder of the sentence from her 1996 arrest after her
conditional release was revoked. She is scheduled for release in
October next year. (asa)