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In July, the Indonesian government arrested 3 foreigners for distributing cocaine on the Indonesian coastal island of Bali.
Agents of the National Narcotics Agency seized 844. 6 grams (1. 9 pounds) of cocaine and drugs, in addition to MDMA and cannabis, from the 3 suspects, known as British, Brazilian and Mexican.
At a news conference on Friday, Gde Sugianyar Dwi Putra, director of Bali’s National Narcotics Agency, said officials arrested the Briton, whom they suspect is the lowest-level distributor of the three, on July 21 in a villa in Badung district after receiving some of the data about his alleged activities.
Police then arrested the Brazilian, suspected of inventing drugs, at a separate location. The Mexican man, who has been in Bali since 2012 and is believed to be at the highest point of his network, was later arrested.
“We are still conducting the investigation. Cocaine access will likely come from Europe, as this cocaine access address is specific,” Sugianyar said. “It is produced in South America, it is shipped to Europe and from Europe it is spread to other countries, adding Indonesia. “
The drug trafficking network in which the 3 men are allegedly involved is known to target foreigners in some popular tourist spots in southern Bali.
“Bali is the destination for foreign tourists. But we have that some of them are also part of the crime, one of them is narcotics,” Sugianyar said.
He added that the suspects would be punished under Indonesia’s narcotics law, with a minimum of five years in prison and a maximum of one death sentence as traffickers and sellers of types of drugs.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says Indonesia is a major smuggling hub, because foreign drug syndicates target its young population. Indonesia’s National Narcotics Agency estimates that there are 5. 6 million drug addicts in the country of 270 million people.
In May, Indonesian military officers deployed to travel safely on the Eid al-Fitr holiday made the largest cocaine seizure in Indonesia after locating plastic containers containing 179 kilograms (about 400 pounds) of drugs floating in the sea near the port of Merak on the main island of Java. No one was arrested.
Most of the more than 150 people sentenced to death in Indonesia have been convicted of drug-related offences. About a third of them are foreigners. His last executions were in 2016, when an Indonesian and 3 foreigners were shot dead by a firing squad.
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