Seven Iranians have been arrested for smuggling methamphetamines into Bali by packing the drugs into capsules and swallowing them.
Each of the suspects swallowed between 50 and 100 capsules, police said.
Bali Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Gde Sugianyar told the Jakarta Globe on Thursday that the capsules were not damaged while they were inside the suspects because each was covered in six to seven layers of plastic wrap.
According to Sugianyar, the suspects arrived at Denpasar’s Ngurah Rai Airport at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday. They flew from Istanbul, Turkey, to Doha, Qatar, before arriving in Bali. A customs officer became suspicious after noticing that one of the stomach of one of the suspects, Daryoush Omidali, looked big and hard.
The customs officer took the suspect to the Bali International Medical Center Hospital in Denpasar and an X-ray scan revealed 100 methamphetamine-filled capsules inside his stomach. Officers conducted the same medical inspection on six other Iranians and found a total of 271 capsules in their stomaches in various quantities. The other six suspects’ names were Mehdi, Bahman, Mohsen, Alireza, Masoud and Saeid.
“Total evidence was 371 meth-filled capsules with a total weight of two kilograms,” Sugianyar said.
He added that the suspects planned to transit in Bali for two hours before continuing the journey to Jakarta by a domestic flight.
JG
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