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Three British nationals accused of passing more than two pounds of cocaine in Indonesia were charged Tuesday before a court on the Tourist Island of Bali. They are faced with the death penalty under the strict drug law laws.
Drug smugglers condemned in Indonesia are sometimes executed by shooting squad.
Jonathan Christopher Collyer, 28, and Lisa Ellen Store, 29, were arrested on February 1 after the customs agents arrested them in the X -ray machine after finding suspicious items in their luggage disguised as food packets, said the prosecutor I manufactured Dipa Umbara.
Umbara told Denpasar District Court that a laboratory test result confirmed that Ten Sachets of Angel Delight Powderned dessert Mix in Collir’s luggage combined with seven similar sachets in the suitcase of its partner contained 2.19 pounds of cocaine, worth $ 368,000.
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Two days later, the authorities arrested Phineas Ambrose Float, 31 after a controlled delivery set up by the police in which the other two suspects gave him drugs in the parking lot of a hotel in Denpasar. He is tried separately.
The drugs were brought from England to Indonesia with a transit at Doha International Airport in Qatar, Umbara said.
The group managed to switch from cocaine smuggled to Bali twice before being taken in the third attempt, said Ponco Indriyo, deputy director of the Bali police drug unit at a press conference in Denpasar on February 7.
After the accusations against the group of three were read, the panel of three judges postponed the trial until June 10, when the court hears the testimony.
The defendants and their lawyers refused to comment on the media after the trial. Speaking at the BBC In February, their lawyer, Sheiny Pangkahila, said that if they were convicted, they could each face 15 to 20 years in an Indonesian prison or the death penalty.
The British Embassy of Jakarta did not immediately respond to a request for AFP comments.
About 530 people, including 96 foreigners, are in the death corridor in Indonesia, mainly for drug -related crimes, showed data from the Ministry of Immigration and Correctional Services. The latest executions of Indonesia, an Indonesian and three foreigners, were carried out in July 2016.
A British woman, Lindsay Sandiford, now aged 69, has been in the corridor of death in Indonesia for more than a decade. She was arrested in 2012 when 8.4 pounds of cocaine were discovered filled inside the luggage mucosa at Bali airport. The highest court in Indonesia confirmed the death penalty for Sandiford in 2013.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime claims that Indonesia is a major drug hubs despite some of the most strict drug laws in the world, partly because international drug unions target its young population.
The administration of the Indonesian President Prabowo Sui -Buanto has moved in recent months to repatriate several high -level detainees, all convicted of drug offenses, in their country of origin.
The Frenchman Serge Atlaoui returned to France in February after Jakarta and Paris concluded an agreement to repatriate him for “humanitarian grounds” because he was sick.
In December, Indonesia took Mary Jane Veloso Outside the death corridor and returned it to the Philippines.
He also sent the five remaining members of “Bali Neuf” Drug Ring, which was serving heavy prison sentences, returning to Australia.
According to the Indonesian Ministry of Immigration and Correctional Services, 96 foreigners were in the death corridor, all drug charges, before the release of Veloso.
Meanwhile, in Sri Lanka, a former British on -board agent, Charlotte May Leewas arrested for accused that she had more than 100 pounds of synthetic cannabis in her suitcases. She could incur life imprisonment in the event of a conviction.
Agency France-Press contributed to this report.
