Drug seized from Indian national at Jakarta airport

Customs and excise officers have arrested another Indian national for trying to smuggle drugs into the country at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.
Bahaduri Wijayanta, the chief of the customs office at the airport, said Tuesday that officers had seized 2.5 kilograms of ketamine worth Rp 2.5 billion (US$270,000) from the suspect identified as Chetan Ashokal Rohra, 25.
He said the suspect flew from India on Philippine Airlines flight PR 503 and arrived at the airport on Monday.
The suspect, who works as a textile trader in India, said he was asked by a man identified as SS to carry the drugs to Jakarta.
The suspect said that he would be paid 5000 rupee (around Rp 1 million or US$108) if he could deliver the drugs to someone in Pasar Baru, in Central Jakarta.
Separately, Gatot Sugeng Wibowo, head of prosecutions at the customs and excise office, said this was the second drug smuggling case involving Indian nationals that officers had foiled this year.
02/03/10 Multa Fidrus/The Jakarta Post

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Categories: Foreign Feb 2010