Teacher Nabbed After Massive Bali Meth Smuggling Attempt

Jakarta Globe, October 17, 2011

Indonesian Theresia Avilla Yanti Siwi (middle), Nurhadi Imran (right) and
 Erika (left) are being shown to journalist after they were arrested for smuggling
 crystal methamphetamine at Ngurah Rai Customs Office, Kuta, Bali on Sunday.
Theresia, who acted as the courier of 3,7 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine
 from Africa was arrested at Ngurah Rai Airport on Oct. 10th. The other two suspects,
Nurhadi and Erika, who organized the smuggling operation were arrested later.
(JG Photo/J.P. Christo) 

      

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Customs officers at Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport said on Sunday that they had arrested three Indonesians for attempting to smuggle 3.7 kilograms of methamphetamine into the country from Mozambique.

Customs head Made Wijaya said the contraband, with an estimated street value of Rp 9.3 billion ($1 million), was brought in on Oct. 10 by Theresia Avilla Yanti Siwi, a 39-year-old English teacher from Malang, East Java, who arrived on board a Qatar Airways flight from Kenya.

The drugs were found concealed in the lining of her luggage. She claimed she was promised $900 to pick up the package in Maputo and bring it to Indonesia. Police have also arrested Bali residents Erika and Nurhadi Imron, the suspected recipients of the meth.

Police say the syndicate also involves inmates at prisons in Bali and Jakarta. It is also the third case of attempted meth smuggling from East Africa uncovered in Bali since July.