Narcotics
Powder Trail
Tuesday, November 12, 2002
Cocaine worth Rp1.5 billion was found in a Ghana Airways aircraft at Jakarta's airport. Police suspect an international drug syndicate is using Indonesia as a transit point.
arsip tempo : 178038324694.
Smuggling narcotics through diplomatic channels or by hiding them in one's intestines is old hat. Now there's a more sophisticated way, that no sleuth dog would be able to sniff out: hiding the drugs in an aircraft.
This was revealed by the case of Subandi, a Garuda Maintenance Facility (GMF) employee. GMF is owned by the Garuda Indonesia airline and takes care of the maintenance of aircraft at Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.
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