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Fri, 10/01/2010 - 17:59
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Aussie arrested for meth in Bali
Another Australian man could be facing an Indonesian firing squad after his arrested
at Bali airport with an alleged 1.7kg of the drug ice in his luggage.
Bali customs officers say the man's name is Michael Sacatides, 43, from
Wentworthville in Sydney.
They say he arrived in Bali at about 11.30am on Friday, on an AirAsia flight from
Bangkok.
"When passing through the x-ray officers became suspicious of a plastic bag in his
luggage," senior airport customs official Bagus Endro Wibowo said.
"After checking, they found four packages of methamphetamine, with a total weight of
1.7kg."
Sacatides told officials he had been given the suitcase containing the drugs by an
Indian man in Bangkok, Wibowo said.
Sacatides, believed to be a kickboxing instructor, could potentially now be facing a
charge of importing a type one narcotic, which carries the death penalty.
The drugs are reportedly worth 2.8 billion rupiah - about $AUD323,000 - at current
Indonesian street prices.
Three Australians - Scott Rush, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran - are currently on
death row in Bali's Kerobokan Prison over a 2005 attempt to smuggle more than 8kg of
heroin from Bali to Australia.
All three currently have final appeals before the Indonesian courts.
Another six members of the so-called Bali Nine are serving between 20 years and life
over the foiled plot.
The Gold Coast's Schapelle Corby is also serving 20 years for smuggling 4.1kg of
marijuana into Bali in 2004.
Executions in Indonesia are carried out by firing squad, and typically take place
late at night in secret locations.
Condemned prisoners are informed 72 hours before their execution is to take place.
A police firing squad shoots the prisoner in the heart from a distance of between
five and 10 metres, upon the signal of a swift downward sword stroke from the squad
commander.
If the prisoner is still alive, the deputy squad commander then presses the muzzle
of his gun on the prisoners head and fires a finishing shot.
at Bali airport with an alleged 1.7kg of the drug ice in his luggage.
Bali customs officers say the man's name is Michael Sacatides, 43, from
Wentworthville in Sydney.
They say he arrived in Bali at about 11.30am on Friday, on an AirAsia flight from
Bangkok.
"When passing through the x-ray officers became suspicious of a plastic bag in his
luggage," senior airport customs official Bagus Endro Wibowo said.
"After checking, they found four packages of methamphetamine, with a total weight of
1.7kg."
Sacatides told officials he had been given the suitcase containing the drugs by an
Indian man in Bangkok, Wibowo said.
Sacatides, believed to be a kickboxing instructor, could potentially now be facing a
charge of importing a type one narcotic, which carries the death penalty.
The drugs are reportedly worth 2.8 billion rupiah - about $AUD323,000 - at current
Indonesian street prices.
Three Australians - Scott Rush, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran - are currently on
death row in Bali's Kerobokan Prison over a 2005 attempt to smuggle more than 8kg of
heroin from Bali to Australia.
All three currently have final appeals before the Indonesian courts.
Another six members of the so-called Bali Nine are serving between 20 years and life
over the foiled plot.
The Gold Coast's Schapelle Corby is also serving 20 years for smuggling 4.1kg of
marijuana into Bali in 2004.
Executions in Indonesia are carried out by firing squad, and typically take place
late at night in secret locations.
Condemned prisoners are informed 72 hours before their execution is to take place.
A police firing squad shoots the prisoner in the heart from a distance of between
five and 10 metres, upon the signal of a swift downward sword stroke from the squad
commander.
If the prisoner is still alive, the deputy squad commander then presses the muzzle
of his gun on the prisoners head and fires a finishing shot.