Medan, North Sumatra – Performing on a suggestion, narcotics and custom-mades officials conducted a joint operation and foiled an attempt by traffickers to smuggle drugs, wrapped in green tea packages, into North Sumatra from Malaysia.
The National Narcotics Firm (BNN), BNN North Sumatra, North Sumatra Customs and Excise Workplace, and BNN Pidie Jaya (Aceh) took part in the drug operation on Saturday afternoon, which led to the arrest of 6 suspects, determined by their initials as MF, MR, BW, AM, RZ, and MRU.
The methamphetamine was apparently peddled by an international drug distribute operating in Medan and Bereun (Aceh), and was found covered in 37 plans of Chinese green tea, Arman Depari, deputy for drug elimination of BNN, stated here on Monday.
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The drug raid was performed following a tip that the drugs would be smuggled from Malaysia into Kuala Bireuen waters, Aceh Province, and flowed in Aceh and North Sumatra.
” Hence, the BNN group, in coordination with the Regional Workplace of Customs and Import Tax in Aceh, deployed custom-mades sea patrol boats, BC 15021 and BC 20011, to keep track of an Oskadon fishing vessel in Malaysian waters,” Depari said.
The joint group kept an eye on the movements of 2 suspects, MF and MR, and apprehended them in Binjai with 29 packages of drugs, which were packed in 2 sacks.
The 2 traffickers informed officials the drugs were to be given Medan by means of a four-wheeled vehicle.
Later on, BNN officers jailed BW and AM in Medan, as well as RZ from MRU’s warehouse, located in Jeumpa, Bireuen.
Drug distributes generally use Malaysia as a transit indicate smuggle narcotics illegally into Indonesia.
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