"The meth is consumable by 35 million people."Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Jakarta Police have confiscated 351 kilograms of methamphetamine ready for distribution and two kilograms of ephedrine worth Rp702 billion from a Malaysian syndicate.
"The meth is consumable by 35 million people," Chief of Jakarta Metropolitan Police Command Inspector General Untung S Rajab said here on Thursday.
He expressed appreciation to the team from the command`s directorate of narcotic crime investigation that had foiled its distribution.
The head of the sub-directorate of psychotropics of the directorate, Adjunct Senior Commissioner Eko Saputro, explained the police had monitored the activity of the syndicate since three months ago.
He said initially the police arrested two couriers known by their initials as AK and DR and confiscated a kilogram of meth and two kilograms of ephedrine as evidence at Hotel Sanno in Penjaringan, North Jakarta, on May 8.
Later following the development of the investigation into the case the police arrested Malaysian suspect EWH alias J with evidence of 12 kilograms of meth at a room in Hotel Novotel, North Jakarta, on the same day.
Following further investigation the police later raided a house at Mediterania Residence at Blook B-8/E at Pantai Mutiara, on Jalan Samudera Raya Number 1 in North Jakarta.
Eko said in that house the police however only discovered two empty cartons formerly used for keeping meth.
He said one of the suspects confessed they had moved the meth to a car with plate number B-9112-HG.
The police searched the car across the capital city and surrounding areas and later discovered it at a shopping center near Pluit Village Mall on Jalan Pluit Indah, North Jakarta, on Wednesday, May 9.
Eko said the police discovered 24 cartons of fish feeder containing meth weighing 338 kilograms kept in an aluminum foil in the car.
He said the police believed the stuff had been smuggled in from China through Malaysia and Tanjung Priok port in North Jakarta using a container and sea transportation means.
Right now the police are still chasing a Malaysian national known by his initials as As believed to be the owner of the drugs.
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