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DENPASAR, Indonesia -- Three British nationals accused of smuggling astir a kilogram (over 2 pounds) of cocaine into Indonesia were charged Tuesday successful a tribunal connected the tourer land of Bali. They look the decease punishment nether the country's strict cause laws.
Convicted cause smugglers successful Indonesia are sometimes executed by firing squad.
Jonathan Christopher Collyer, 28, and Lisa Ellen Stocker, 29, were arrested connected Feb. 1 aft customs officers halted them astatine the X-ray instrumentality aft uncovering suspicious items successful their luggage disguised arsenic nutrient packages, said authoritative I Made Dipa Umbara.
Umbara told the District Court successful Denpasar that a laboratory trial effect confirmed that 10 sachets of Angel Delight powdered dessert premix successful Collyer’s luggage combined with 7 akin sachets successful his partner’s suitcase contained 993.56 grams (2.19 pounds) of cocaine, worthy an estimated 6 cardinal rupiah ($368,000).
Two days later, authorities arrested Phineas Ambrose Float, 31 aft a controlled transportation acceptable up by constabulary successful which the different 2 suspects handed the cause to him successful the parking country of a edifice successful Denpasar. He is being tried separately.
The drugs were brought from England to Indonesia with a transit successful the Doha planetary airdrome successful Qatar, Umbara said.
The radical successfully smuggled cocaine into Bali connected 2 erstwhile occasions earlier being caught connected their 3rd attempt, said Ponco Indriyo, the Deputy Director of the Bali Police Narcotics Unit during a quality league successful Denpasar connected Feb. 7.
After the charges against the radical of 3 were read, the sheet of 3 judges adjourned the proceedings until June 10, erstwhile the tribunal volition perceive witnesser testimony.
Both the defendants and their lawyers declined to remark to media aft the trial.
About 530 people, including 96 foreigners, are connected decease enactment successful Indonesia, mostly for drug-related crimes, the Ministry of Immigration and Corrections’ information showed. Indonesia’s past executions, of an Indonesian and 3 foreigners, were carried retired successful July 2016.
A British woman, Lindsay Sandiford, present 69, has been connected decease enactment successful Indonesia for much than a decade. She was arrested successful 2012 erstwhile 3.8 kilograms (8.4 pounds) of cocaine was discovered stuffed wrong the lining of her luggage astatine Bali’s airport. Indonesia’s highest tribunal upheld the decease condemnation for Sandiford successful 2013.
The United Nations Office connected Drugs and Crime says Indonesia is simply a large drug-smuggling hub contempt having immoderate of the strictest cause laws successful the world, successful portion due to the fact that planetary cause syndicates people its young population.
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Associated Press writer Niniek Karmini successful Jakarta, Indonesia, contributed to this report.
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