DENPASAR, Indonesia (BN24) — A Peruvian woman has been accused of trying to smuggle more than $70,000 worth of cocaine and ecstasy into Bali by hiding the drugs in her underwear and a sex toy, Indonesian authorities said.
The woman, identified only as N.S., 42, was stopped by customs officers at Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport on August 12 after officials noticed her acting suspiciously, police said.
Authorities discovered six packages of narcotics wrapped in black duct tape inside a green bra, three similar packages hidden in her underwear, and additional drugs concealed in a sex toy inserted into her body, according to Radiant, the head of Bali police’s narcotics unit.
In total, police said they recovered 1.4 kilograms (3.1 pounds) of cocaine and 43 ecstasy pills.
The woman told investigators she was recruited through a contact on the dark web in April and paid $19,000 to smuggle the drugs from Barcelona, Spain, to Bali, with a stopover in Doha. She was arrested shortly after customs officers alerted police.
She has been charged under Indonesia’s strict narcotics laws and faces the death penalty if convicted. While Indonesia has not carried out executions since 2017, it has previously sentenced foreigners to death for drug trafficking.
The case follows several recent high-profile arrests of foreigners attempting to smuggle drugs into Indonesia. Just last month, three British nationals were convicted of trying to bring in cocaine disguised as powdered dessert mix but avoided execution.
