Sunday, January 15, 2012

Starting from the Birds, Sea Horse, up Bags

Efforts smuggling various animate and inanimate objects do not stop happening at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.

Smugglers who attempt to avoid paying excise duty or tax was even wearing a new way to utilize the labor of women who returned to the country. They got a deposit of goods such as mobile phone accessories to be brought to Jakarta.

The taking of action and Investigation Section Chief Customs Office Soekarno-Hatta International Airport Eko Darmanto disclose that fact to reporters at the airport on Tuesday (14 / 4).

According to Eko, overwrite the last case of women workers from Hong Kong who had entrusted the goods they did not know it to be brought to Jakarta.

Owner of the goods is only stating that the goods are packed neatly in black or brown bag large were taken to Jakarta and then left it alone.

"A few days later someone who brings the number of flights proof of ownership of goods referred to take things that have been entered into the counter lost and found," Eko said, pointing to piles of black bags behind.

Such cases, among others, occurred in late April. Some female workers from Hong Kong carrying 17 piece accessory bag containing various kinds of mobile phones by plane Chatay Pacific. Customs and excise officers who monitor the incident and then middle-contraband goods worth USD 200 million.

Airport Customs Office records show, as a whole during January to April 2009, the Office of Customs and Excise Soekarno-Hatta International Airport six middle-smuggling efforts of Nokia and Blackberry goods, luxury bags, dried sea horses, until the manifold-type animals.

Creatures living

In March, Al, male nationals of Saudi Arabia, to smuggle 15 live animals shy type (such as koalas rodents), birds, parrots, cockatoos, parrots, and birds of eastern Indonesia pigeon whose price is estimated to exceed 80,000 U.S. dollars.

Originally, Al will bring animals that fall into the category of protected wildlife in the form of life or death to Saudi Arabia for the purpose of a pet shop or pet store. Prices reached an endangered species 5000-6000 U.S. dollars.

Al brings various birds were placed only in a plastic box. As shyly placed in a circular position in the box of woven leaves. The boxes were then entered into the terminal he tenteng international flight departures. The officer who saw the incident and arrested him.

When the boxes opened, the birds appear in weak condition. "The possibility of animals had been anesthetized for trips lasting for about three hours," said a customs officer. All animals were now entrusted to the Natural Resources Conservation Center in Jakarta.

In other cases, customs officers also arrested FMG and SL branded carrying bag Prada, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, and Blackberry cellular phone brands. All goods were smuggled in from Hong Kong, Singapore, and China.

Dozens of well-known branded handbags are known to exist of the original, but there are also counterfeit. Contraband bag that goes in a different time in January to March was divided into ten coli. Value of the goods reach hundreds of millions of dollars.

As for smuggling a bale of sea horse (Hippocampus coronatus) is dried done via express mail delivery.

The goods were thought to have come from Batam to be sent to Hong Kong through Soekarno-Hatta Airport. Dried seahorses are widely used for the manufacture of drugs.

"Sea horse including animals that are protected by law and are prohibited to be exported," said Eko.

Sea horses included in the category of goods protected by the Act No. 5 of 1992 on Conservation of Natural Resources and Ecosystems. Perpetrators of smuggling is punishable by imprisonment of at least one year imprisonment and a maximum of five years, and a fine of Rp 5 million to $ 100 million.


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