German arrested for drug smuggling

[balinews]

Customs and excise officers have apprehended a German citizen, Martin Robert Moller, attempting to smuggle 288 grams of hashish packed in capsules in his stomach at Ngurah Rai Airport in Denpasar, Bali.

The deputy head of local customs and excise, Rahmat Subagio, told a press conference on Monday that the 41-year-old graphic designer flew from Bangkok to Bali on Thai Airways on Friday.

He had packed the drugs into 22 capsules and swallowed them.

“We felt suspicious with the suspect and observed his attitude. After examining him, we found two capsules of hashish in his rectum and 20 others in his stomach,” he said as quoted by kompas.com.

Rahmat said the officers took Martin to a hospital to discharge the capsules from his stomach and rectum.

No stomach for smuggling in Bali | The Jakarta Post

 

[sherm]

Never-ending story of stupid.

 

[balibule]

I wonder why this keeps happening. Do you think that many drug traffickers actually succeed?

 

[Markit]

According to the Jakarta Post version of this story the guy "lost" two of the packages in the car to the hospital and this article refers to them "finding" two packages in his rectum.

Lets be adults: The guy shit himself... and to be honest I nearly did too when reading about it.

I'm sorry, it's a tragedy but a funny one.

 

[sugarbear]

Drug smuggling

I wonder why this keeps happening. Do you think that many drug traffickers actually succeed?

I think that most of us have focused on the utter stupidity of trying to smuggling drugs into any country. But, balibule brings up an interesting point, how many drug traffickers succeed? Given the efficiency of the Indonesian government as a whole, perhaps less than 10% of the traffickers are caught.

 

[Markit]

10% catch rate is wildly optimistic - some specialists speculate that even America with its high-tech and draconion methods only manages 2-3% success rate.

One can only imagine with the policy of the open hand here why anyone gets caught.

 

[balibule]

One can only imagine with the policy of the open hand here why anyone gets caught.

I am guessing that this depends on what media attention it gets. If no one knows about it its possibly easier to give a donation and get away with it? Just guessing.

 

[Markit]

You gotta ask then, how do the media hear about it?

Don't know this for a fact, but hearsay has it that the young mother involved in the latest Cocaine fiasco, who is the alleged kingpin, the prosecutors are apparently only asking a year....?