Jakarta (Antara Bali) - The National Narcotics Agency (BNN) has taken over the case of a pregnant Indonesian woman who was caught carrying heroin at Xiaoshan airport, Hangzhou, China, last February 1, a BNN official said.
The Chinese authorities had decided to deport the woman, identified by her initials as FMD, as under Chinese law an expecting woman cannot be criminally prosecuted, said Brig Gen Benny Mamoto, BNN's director for eradication and pursuits, said here Thursday.
FMD who was five months pregnant had tried to smuggle 544,51 grams of heroin hidden in sanitary napkins into China.
The Chinese authorities had sent FMD to Indonesia but retained most of the heroin confiscated from her. "We only received 10 grams of the drug to serve as evidence and for other purposes," Benny said.
The Indonesian woman had been made to act as a drug courier by her Nigerian boy friend who had previously made her pregnant and told her the sanitary napkins contained gold ore.(IGT)
BNN Takes In Female Drug Courier Deported By China
Pewarta : 1 Maret 2012 19:55 WIB
