German National Caught to Smuggle 3.7 Kg Hashish

Mataram (Antara Bali) - A German national, Rolf Oskar Josef Schweikert (57) has been caught attempting to smuggle 3.7 kilograms of hashish to Indonesia at Lombok International Airport in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara.

"His modus operandi is false compartment namely a compartment specially created for hiding the stuff on the inside part of his bag," local KPPBC customs service head Listrijono said here on Sunday in the company of the provincial chief of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN), Senior Commissioner H Muftih Djusnir and narcotics affairs director of the West Nusa Tenggara police command, Senior Commissioner Rizky Simon Pays.

Listrijono said Rolf was one of the passengers of Silk Air Flight Number MI 128 that arrived at the airport at 7pm on Saturday as an inbound passenger from Nepal to Lombok with a transit in Singapore.

He said the German passenger had held a ticket to leave Indonesia for Malaysia through Bali's Ngurah Rai airport on October 22.

"It is suspected he has been assigned by an international syndicate to smuggle the illegal drug to Lombok and then return home through Malaysia from Bali. The case will be further investigated by the police," he said.

Listrijono said the illegal stuff was detected following an X-Ray inspection on the passenger's baggage.(IGT)