A convicted drug trafficker found guilty of organizing the shipment of some four tons of Ecstasy from China while behind bars was sentenced to death by the West Jakarta District Court on Monday.
Convict Freddy Budiman arranged the delivery of 1.4 million pills from his Cipinang Penitentiary prison cell in May, 2012. The drugs, which were sent from Shenzhen, China, were concealed in a shipping container registered as carrying fish tanks and successfully passed through security checks at North Jakarta’s Tanjung Priok port. The National Narcotics Agency (BNN) raided the truck in Cengkareng, West Jakarta, shortly after it left the port, discovering the shipment.
Freddy later admitted to organizing the shipment, but told investigators that he only asked for 500,000 Ecstasy pills. The order was apparently more than doubled because the manufacturer thought Freddy had reliable connections with Indonesian drug markets and nightclubs.....
