The police
say narcotics officers arrested three Iranian citizens on Friday for allegedly
smuggling 15,000 doses of crystal
methamphetamine worth about Rp 1.5 billion ($US175,500) into Indonesia.
Jakarta
Police narcotics chief Sr. Comr Nugroho Aji Wijayanto said the suspects,
identified as MA, MDZ and SK, were allegedly part of a Iranian drug network.
“The
crystal methamphetamine was made in Iran and brought to Indonesia by the three
suspects on Qatar Airlines,” Nugroho said Monday as quoted by kompas.com.
The
suspects had swallowed a total of 159 small plastic bags of crystal meth to
evade detection, he said.
“We trailed
them from the airport. They took a taxi to their hotel in Senen [Central Jakarta] where they took out the
crystal meth,” Nugroho said.
Officers
then raided the suspects’ hotel room.
The police
would investigate the suspects’ local contacts, he said.
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