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Indonesian
customs arrested an Iranian man for allegedly attempting to smuggle
methamphetamine worth $2 million hidden in oxygen tanks into the country,
officials said on Thursday.
Rosul
Solihikan, 30, was arrested on Monday when he went to pick up the two tanks
filled with 18 kilograms of drugs he sent from Iran, said the customs chief
investigator at Jakarta Airport.
“He and the
package arrived on the same day last week on different flights from Iran,”
Gatot Sugeng Wibowo told AFP, adding that airport officials always pay extra
attention to packages from Iran.
The
suspect, who claimed to be a technician for diving equipment, arrived on
Saturday on Emirates and the package was on Qatar Airways cargo.
Iranian
drugs syndicates have become the main suppliers of heroin and crystal
methamphetamine to Indonesia, replacing West African countries, police say.
“He’s now
under investigation of an anti-narcotics police unit,” said Wibowo.
Indonesia
enforces stiff penalties, including life imprisonment and death, for drug
trafficking.
Eight
Iranians were sentenced to life last year for smuggling hundreds of
methamphetamine tablets in their stomachs into the resort island of Bali.
Agence France-Presse
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