REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- A Nigerian citizen is wanted by the Jakarta Metropolitan Police following the arrest of Nigerian suspect AC alias DV and Indonesian citizen WP alias PT for heroin possession in September.
"We will cooperate with the Interpol to arrest the wanted person," the Director of the Narcotics Crime Investigation unit of the Jakarta Metropolitan Police Command, Senior Commissioner Eko Daniyanto, said here on Thursday (13/11).
He noted that Nigerian citizen AC alias DV smuggled heroin into Indonesia by swallowing it.
During a search in two different locations, the illegal drugs were found packed into milk cans along with methamphetamine, the senior commissioner stated.
With regard to its value, Daniyanto added that heroin is more expensive than methamphetamine. "A kilogram of heroin costs Rp600 million overseas, but as its value in Indonesia is as much as Rp2 billion, the Nigerian network operates here," he explained.
On September 25, the Jakarta police arrested AC alias DV and WP alias PT following a report about a narcotics transaction being carried out by a Nigerian citizen using mini-market toilet garbage cans to hide the substances.
The police arrested WP while he was leaving the Akasia Tower of Kalibata City Apartments in South Jakarta. They confiscated 30 grams of heroin, 46 grams of meth, 98 grams of meth and a cell phone from him.
WP alleged that he obtained the narcotics from AC alias DV, who admitted that he was going to give the methamphetamine to his girlfriend who would deliver it to its buyer.
The police then searched apartment number 10 in the Akasia Tower but found nothing but a key, which led them to search an apartment on the 16th floor of the Borneo Tower in the complex. There they found one laptop bag containing a kilogram of heroin and another containing 1.145 kilograms of meth and a scale.
Fifteen suspects have been arrested in connection with the case so far, and they are threatened with charges of violating the narcotics law with a maximum sentence of death.
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