The ring members were Iranian, Malaysian and Indonesian nationals.
"Ring members carried the meth from Iran to Indonesia via Malaysia," the Jakarta Metropolitan Police`s head of public relations, Senior Commissioner Baharudin Djafar said here on Thursday.
He said the police had arrested six suspects in connection with the case, namely NA alias AY, AC alias YA, TN alias IDA (female), CAN (of Chinese descent), JMI alias JN (of Chinese descent) and YNT alias ATN.
The command`s director of narcotic drugs, Senior Commissioner Nugroho Aji, said it all began when police received information about a narcotic drug smuggling attempt through Jakarta`s Soekarno-Hatta airport.
Based on it the police then conducted surveillance and later arrested NA alias AY, AC alias YA and TNI alias IDA on Jalan Tanah Tinggi III, Joharbaru, Central Jakarta, on Friday (Oct 21).
After developing the information further the police then arrested ACN, JMI alias JN and YNT alias ATmN at Putri Duyung Cottage in Ancol, North Jakarta, on Wednesday (Oct 26).
Nugroho said the suspects had brought the illegal drug from Iran to Malaysia by plane and sent it to Indonesia through Tanjung Pinang, Riau, and then smuggled it into Batam by boat.
"The suspects then brought it from Batam to Jakarta by plane through Soekarno-Hatta airport," he said adding they planned to distribute it in Jakarta, Bandung, Palembang and Surabaya.
He said he would conduct reconstruction of the smuggling attempt as the international drug ring had been using a new method in its operations.
Besides arresting the six suspects the police have also confiscated 10.5 kilograms of meth, three passports, 11 cellular phones and a BCA savings account book and a scale.
Right now the Jakarta police in coordination with the National Police are still chasing TK and OE (Malaysians) as other suspects in the case.
He said the suspects would be charged based on t Article 132 and Article 112 of Law Number 35 of 2009 on narcotic drugs that carry a a maximum penalty od death or a minimum of five years in jail.
(T.T014/H-YH/HAJM/A014)
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