TWO MALAYSIANS WANTED OVER HEROIN SMUGGLING CASE

Jakarta, April 15 (ANTARA) - Police have put two Malaysians on their wanted persons list for being implicated in an attempt to smuggle in three kilogram of heroin through Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on Tuesday (April 14).

The Malaysian nationals were identified by their initials as H and D, Brigadier General Harry Montolalu, the National Police's narcotics and organized crime director, said here on Wednesday.
The two fugitives were suspected of controlling an international heroin dealing syndicate operating on the South Africa- Malaysia-Jakarta route, he said.
In the same case, the Indonesian Police have arrested Ujang Wijaya as a heroin courier at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, on Tuesday.
Ujang Wijaya had hidden the heroin inside chocolate cans, he said.
"The shape of the heroin also looks like chocolates. Therefore, officers did not suspect him because they thought it was an ordinary cake," he said.
The mode of the smuggling attempt was new, and therefore airport officers must be always on alert, he said.
The police suspected that Ujang Wijaya had acted as a heroin courier from overseas to Indonesia three times.
"Ujang went to South Africa twice and to Macao once. Why did he go there, if not to pick up heroin," he said.
For every trip, Wijaya was paid Rp7 million, he said.
The heroin he tried to be smuggled into Indonesia was of good quality and might come from the borders of Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, he said.
"The Indonesian Police will coordinate with Malaysian and South African police to uncover this syndicate," he said.