TEMPO.CO, Kupang – Five suspected drug dealers who are part of an international narcotics syndicate detained at the East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Police headquarters face possible death penalty.
The five are OK (30), a Nigerian national who allegedly acted as a dealer, and four of his couriers, viz. S alias J (20), a female student of a private university from Jakarta; ES (29), an employee of a restaurant in Macau from East Lampung; IM (37), a Jakartan; and A (44) a female from Banten. The police arrested the suspects in November 2014.
“They are all drug dealers, so the heaviest punishment for them will be death,” NTT Police chief Brig. Gen. Endang Sunjaya said in the province's capital of Kupang on Monday, January 15, 2015.
According to S, Endang said, the couriers were paid Rp20 million each for smuggling narcotics—crystal meth from Bangkok, Thailand—into the country.
The police seized from the suspects 6.5 kg of crystal meth, which the latter sold at Rp2.5 million per gram, and destroyed it in December 2014.
Also in December 2014, the NTT Police demolished nine kilograms of narcotics confiscated from another international syndicate worth over Rp27 billion.
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