Four arrested in Bali over drugs face death penalty

DENPASAR, Bali: Four people arrested recently on drug charges on the Indonesian resort island of Bali face the death penalty, its anti-drugs chief said on Tuesday ( Sep 17 ).

Officials arrested two Thai nationals at the region’s international airports on Sep 3 for ownership of methamphetamine, joy and glass MDMA, Bali narcotics company mind Rudy Ahmad Sudrajat told reporters.

He claimed that” the drugs would be handed over to two Indonesians who had ordered them.”

On September 8, a messenger whose nationality was unknown was even detained at the same airport, and one of the Indonesian citizens was also detained.

All four face the death penalty if found criminal, Sudrajat said.

In July, police even detained two Germans, both of whom were from Latvia and Sweden.

The Romanian person who is suspected of belonging to a crime gang in his state faces up to 20 years in prison after being found with 450 grams of marijuana and 977 grams of marijuana.

After being discovered with 201g of marijuana at his palace, the Swedish think faces up to 15 years in prison.

Indonesia has some of the nation’s toughest drug rules, including the dying sentence for smugglers.

Difficulty number of traffickers are on death row in the nation, including a British aunt who allegedly smuggles cocaine and a Spanish woman who is accused of smuggling heroin.

In May, authorities detained two Ukrainians, a Russian, and an Indonesian who were all facing the death penalty for operating a hydraulic marijuana and mephedrone production laboratory.

An Asian man was allegedly trying to sell crystal meth on the resort island and faced up to 20 years in prison that same quarter. In July, he received a six-month sentence for pharmaceutical rehab.

One Indonesian and three African drug prisoners were killed by the firing squad in Indonesia’s last execution in 2016.