Indian Man Busted at Bali Airport For Smuggling Club Drug Ketamine

Customs officials at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali on Friday arrested an Indian man identified as Rangaswamy Mohammed Umar for allegedly trying to smuggle 9.8 kilograms of ketamine into the country.
Bambang Wahyudi, head of the airport’s customs office estimated that the ketamine, an anaesthetic used illicitly as a hallucinogen, was worth about Rp 9.8 billion ($1 million).
“It has a price of about Rp 1 million to 1.2 million per gram on the street,” he said.
Umar arrived in Bali on a Thai Airways flight from New Delhi via Bangkok, arriving in Denpasar on Friday afternoon. Customs officials’ suspicions were aroused when they spotted a suspicious-looking item when carrying out an X-ray examination of Umar’s luggage.
Officials said Umar told them the item was only a water heater that he planned to donate to a local orphanage, but on closer examination the officials found that it contained white crystal powder which was later identified as ketamine.
14/02/10 Jakarta Globe

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