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Nigerian woman nabbed in Indonesia for drug trafficking
Indonesian Narcotic Officials
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According to the report, the woman who can only be identified now with her initials of LN, was arrested at the Dagen area, Yogyakarta, on Wednesday, April 20, following a tip off.
BNN Chief Commissioner General Budi Waseso, said the lady who is suspected to be the courier for a syndicate based in Asia.
"The case came to the light after we received a tip-off from members of the public that there would be a drug related transaction at a hotel in Yogyakarta.
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BNN sent its officer to monitor the hotel and found a person suspected of carrying drugs leaving the hotel for Jakarta by train.
Shortly after arriving in Jakarta, the person, suspected of being a courier, went to the capitals western outskirts of Tangerang.
The BNN foiled the bid to trade 688.7 grams of crystal meth in front of a house-shop in Poris area, Batu Ceper sub-district, Tangerang municipality, on April 14, 2016.
We caught the suspect, identified by his initials as YAK (37), after he handed over crystal meth to a nother person identified as ISK.
Based on information from YAK, BNN officers arrested the Nigerian woman at an apartment in Karawaci, west of Jakarta."
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The sentence for drug trafficking in Indonesia is life imprisonment or deathand if the woman is found guilty, she could either face one of it.
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