INDONESIA: PAKISTANI DRUG SMUGGLER GETS DEATH SENTENCE

November 14, 2016: The Semarang District Court in Central Java sentenced Muhammad Riaz to death for smuggling 97 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine while his fellow pakistani Faiq Akhtar got life imprisonment. The two men were charged under the 2009 Narcotics Law for smuggling the drugs through Tanjung Emas Port in Semarang.
Another foreign national accused of involvement in the smuggling is US national Philip Russel, aka Kamran Muzaffar Malik, who will hear his verdict at the same court on November 16.
The prosecutors had demanded the death penalty for all three foreign nationals earlier this month.
The drugs were imported from Guangzhou, China to Indonesia through Tanjung Emas Port in Semarang at the end of 2015 concealed inside a consignment of generators. The drugs were hidden inside 54 of the generators and stored in a warehouse disguised as a furniture factory in Pekalongan village, in Jepara, Central Java, where they were discovered in a National Narcotics Agency (BNN) raid on Jan. 27.  (Sources: The Jakarta Post, 16/11/2016)