German
student Franco Holinski, 26, was arrested on Wednesday by Customs and Excise
officers at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport for allegedly smuggling 2.4
kilograms of crystal methamphetamine worth Rp 4 billion (US$456,000) into the
country.
Holinski is
a student at a university in Germany. He is the first ever German citizen
arrested for drug smuggling in Indonesia.
“He is the
first,” Soekarno-Hatta's Customs and Excise enforcement and investigation unit
head Gatot Sugeng Wibowo said Friday as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.
He said
that Franco had concealed the drugs in his luggage. “He was arrested on
Wednesday but we have only revealed it today for investigative purposes,” he
said.
Gatot said
Franco arrived on Garuda Indonesia flight GA 098 from Dubai on Wednesday at 9
p.m.. When he got off the plane, customs officers pulled him over for showing
suspicious behavior.
“Our
suspicions were proven right when we checked his luggage and found packages of
drugs concealed in it,” Gatot said.
After
arresting Franco and interrogating him, the police's drug division along with
the customs and excise team went to Fave Hotel in Wahid Hasyim, Central
Jakarta, where they arrested the intended recipient of the packages, identified
as Indian national Khanna Narendragangga, 53.
Gatot said
he suspected they were part of the Iranian international drug ring.
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