Bali prosecutor demands Peruvian be sentenced to 15 years for smuggling 4kg of cocaine
Yesterday, prosecutors in the Denpasar court demanded that a Peruvian man, charged with smuggling 4 kilograms of cocaine, receive a harsh decade-and-a-half long sentence in line with the country’s notoriously draconian drug laws.
“We demand the defendant be imprisoned for 15 years and be fined IDR 1 billion (USD 70,000),” prosecutor Dipa Umbara told the Denpasar Court on Wednesday, as quoted by state news agency Antara.
According to a report from the Jawa Pos network, the defendant, Jorgei Rafael Albornoz Gamarra, was arrested at Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport last December after customs officers grew suspicious of his luggage during a security check, prompting an examination that led to them finding cocaine hidden inside the lining of his suitcase.
Media Indonesia reported that the 4 kilograms of cocaine Gamarra brought with him was worth an estimated IDR 10 billion.
