Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/04/26
By: Kuan-lin Liu
Taipei, April 26 (CNA) Eight Taiwanese nationals found guilty of attempting to smuggle
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one ton of amphetamine into Indonesia in July 2017, received the death penalty on Thursday at the South Jakarta District Court, according to the Jakarta Post.
In two separate hearings, the district court found the three men waiting at Anyer Beach in the province of Banten to offload the drugs, and the five-man crew on the yacht transporting the drugs, guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of violating Indonesia’s Narcotics Law.
The English daily first reported on the hearing involving the three defendants on the beach — Chen Wei-chuan (陳威全), Hsu Yung-li (徐勇立) and Liao Kuan-yu (廖冠宇) — who were responsible for the distribution of the drugs in Indonesia, which took place earlier in the day.
Despite an earlier appeal for leniency by the eight suspects, the court found no mitigating factors in the case of the three defendants for a lighter sentence, the Jakarta Post said.
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