The Indonesian navy boarded a vessel this morning between Singapore and Batam Island and seized 1.1 tonnes of the drug ‘ice’.
The boat was initially boarded by the navy under suspicion of illegal fishing, however when officers searched the 70-tonne vessel they found more than one tonne of the drug in the hold packed into sacks and hidden beneath food supplies.
Brigadier-General Anjan Putra from Indonesia’s National Narcotics Board said that the team who boarded the boat has been searching for it since early December when they received a tip-off to look for a fishing vessel loaded with narcotics.