Aussie in handcuffs accused of smuggling coke into Bali
Balinese officers arrested the man at a Canggu apartment on Thursday after custom officers allegedly found the drugs concealed in a package — addressed to the man — when it was X-rayed on arrival in Indonesia.
The drugs are believed to have been arriving from Thailand.
The man allegedly resisted the arrest and sustained multiple injuries.
The penalty for drug smuggling offences in Indonesia is life imprisonment or the death penalty.
It comes more than 10 years after nine Australians were arrested in Bali for attempting to smuggle more than 8kg of heroin — a street value of more than $4 million — out of Indonesia in 2005.
Ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were sentenced to death and executed by firing squad in April 2015.
The remaining seven — Renae Lawrence, Scott Rush, Michael Czugaj, Martin Stephens, Matthew Norman, Si Yi Chen and Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen — were sentenced to life in prison.
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