"The case will be further investigated by the police."Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara (ANTARA News) - A German national, Rolf Oskar Josef Schweikert (57) has been caught attempting to smuggle 3.7 kilograms of hashish to Indonesia at Lombok International Airport in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara.
"His modus operandi is false compartment namely a compartment specially created for hiding the stuff on the inside part of his bag," local KPPBC customs service head Listrijono said here on Sunday in the company of the provincial chief of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN), Senior Commissioner H Muftih Djusnir and narcotics affairs director of the West Nusa Tenggara police command, Senior Commissioner Rizky Simon Pays.
Listrijono said Rolf was one of the passengers of Silk Air Flight Number MI 128 that arrived at the airport at 7pm on Saturday as an inbound passenger from Nepal to Lombok with a transit in Singapore.
He said the German passenger had held a ticket to leave Indonesia for Malaysia through Bali`s Ngurah Rai airport on October 22.
"It is suspected he has been assigned by an international syndicate to smuggle the illegal drug to Lombok and then return home through Malaysia from Bali. The case will be further investigated by the police," he said.
Listrijono said the illegal stuff was detected following an X-Ray inspection on the passenger`s baggage.
"Today we would refer the case to the Directorate of Narcotics Affairs of the West Nusa Tenggara police command with all the evidence," he said.
Rolf only shook his head and declined to answer when newsmen asked him some questions.
This was the the second drug smuggling attempt happening this week. Last Thursday the KPPBC aborted an attempt to smuggle 2.6 kilograms of methamphetamine by a South African national, Kathlyn Dunn (28).
Kathlyn was an inbound passenger of an Silk Air plane flight number 128 arriving at Lombok International Airport at 7pm on Thursday from South Africa with a transit in Singapore.
Her modus operandi was the same as that used by Rolf namely false compartment.
(Uu.H-YH/A014)
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