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Heroin smuggling foiled USD 6.5 Billion

Liputan6.com, Yogyakarta: Customs and Excise Officers Adisutjipto Airport, Yogyakarta, Sunday (25 / 4) afternoon managed to thwart the attempts of smuggling narcotics weighing 2.6 kilograms of heroin from Malaysia. In addition, officers also arrested a Filipino citizen initials MFV (25), an alleged drug courier.

Heroin is secured in a suitcase owned by officers from MFV immediately after the woman fell from the aircraft with Air Asia from Kuala Lumpur destination of Yogyakarta. Illicit goods that are still shaped yellowish light brown powder was wrapped in MFV in four white plastic. Was hidden in a plastic black suitcase which was then placed in a room under a pile of counterfeit clothes.

Head of Customs Control Services Yogyakarta, Sucipto said, after exhaustively researched in Central Testing and Identification of Goods in Jakarta, is a type of heroin items included in the list of class one narcotics. When sold on the international market, the price could reach USD 6.5 billion more.

In order to further investigate, the suspect and any evidence MFV immediately taken to the Directorate of Drugs Yogyakarta police. MFV perpetrators will be snared by Law Number 35 Year 2009 on Narcotics, with the penalty of capital punishment and a maximum fine of Rp 10 billion. (ARL / ADO)