Brazilian arrested with drugs in Indonesia, head down, in a press conference Sonny Tumbelaka / AFP a Brazilian was arrested while trying to enter drugs on the island of Bali, Indonesia, the country’s anti-anti-anti-anti-agency agency said on Thursday (24). At a press conference, the Indonesian authorities revealed that his arrest took place on July 13 at Bali airport and carried two bags containing just over three pounds of cocaine in his backpack and suitcase. ✅ Click here to follow the G1 international news channel on WhatsApp according to an agency representative, Made Sinar Subawa, the Brazilian admitted in his testimony that he received instructions to deliver the package to a man -based man in Bali. Indonesia has some of the most severe anti -drug laws in the world and provides for the death penalty for traffickers. During the press conference, the Brazilian, who was not named, remained his head down. South African trapped with drugs alongside Brazilian Sonny Tumbelaka / AFP A South African was arrested on the same day as the Brazilian, when she arrived from Singapore, with almost a kilo of methamphetamine allegedly hidden in her clothes. “During the interrogation, she confessed that she received orders to transport the Johannesburg Methamphetamine to Bali to be handed over to someone in Bali,” the agency said. In March, Argentina Eleonora Gracia, 46, was also arrested with more than 244 grams of cocaine in a condom, hidden in her vagina at Bali airport and was sentenced to seven years in prison. Argentina’s testimony, who confessed to the crime, led to the arrest of Briton Elliot James Shaw, 50, who is supposed to receive the drug. He was sentenced to five and a half years in prison and a fine of 1 billion rupees – the equivalent of R $ 340 thousand. Currently, there are dozens of convicts to death for this crime in the country, but the latest executions were made in 2016, when a Indonesian and three Nigerians convicted of drug trafficking were shot by a platoon. In 2015, two Brazilians, also arrested with drugs and accused of trafficking, were executed in the country: Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira and Rodrigo Gularte. In 2023, Brazilian Manuela Vitória de Araújo Farias, also detained with 3 kilos of cocaine at Bali airport, managed to escape a death sentence and was sentenced to 11 years in prison plus the payment of 1 billion Indonesian rupees, the equivalent of about $ 300,000. Her defense classified the result as a “miracle”. Remember the case in the video below. The Brazilian arrested in Indonesia for drug trafficking has not been ordered to be sentenced to death for the crime
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Brazilian is arrested with 3 kg of cocaine in Indonesia and can receive death penalty
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