DUMAI,RIAU: Dumai customs officers have seized 1,075 ecstasy pills smuggled into Riau Province from Malaysia and have arrested six people in Tanjung Jering waters, Bengkalis District, Riau Province.
The ecstasy pills, worth Rp322 million, were found concealed among fresh fish aboard a fishing boat, Acting Head of the Dumai customs office Bambang Dwi Yuwono stated here the other day.
“The task force of Kastima Operations water patrol checked a wooden boat from Malaysia that was headed to Dumai. In the boats rear section, we found a bag containing 1,075 ecstasy pills inside a water container,” he explained.
He suspected that the fishermen were paid to smuggle the drugs into Indonesia.
