Jakarta.- A 42-year-old woman, of Peruvian nationality, was arrested in Bali after landing at the international airport of the tourist island with 1,432.87 grams of
cocaine, a crime that Indonesia punishes with the death penalty, according to authorities of the Asian country on Tuesday.
In a statement, the Police explained that the woman was arrested on the night of August 12, when she tried to enter Bali with the narcotics hidden inside her genitals and underwear, after completing a trip that began in
Spain the previous day and which included a brief stop in Qatar.
"After conducting an inspection, customs agents suspected" the accused, so they requested a more thorough investigation from the Anti-Narcotics Unit, whose officials discovered the drugs through X-ray images.
The detainee hid a dildo containing 194 grams of cocaine inside her genitals, while the rest of the narcotics were found inside her underwear.
"They also found 85 orange ecstasy pills inside the bra," the statement continues.
According to investigations, the case began to unfold in April through a chat on the dark web, in which a man coordinated with the woman to receive the drug in the Spanish city of Barcelona with the promise of a reward of 20,000 US dollars if she managed to bring it into Bali.
The police are on the trail of the person who delivered the drugs in Spain, as well as the network that would receive the Peruvian woman in Bali.
At the end of July, the Indonesian Justice sentenced a 46-year-old Argentinian woman to seven years in prison for attempting to smuggle cocaine hidden in her body into Bali, on the same day that three British citizens received a one-year prison sentence, after the Police found narcotics in their suitcases.
In recent months, Indonesia, a country that considers the death penalty for drug trafficking, has approved repatriations of foreigners convicted of crimes related to illicit substances, in an unusual show of clemency towards those sentenced for drug trafficking.
According to Amnesty International's latest report on death sentences and executions, which dates from 2024, the Indonesian Justice system issued 64 new death sentences for drug-related offenses in the year prior to the publication of the document.
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