Kuta is 4 mad dogs + crazy Auzzie drug smugglers (thus the name…) – Bali, island of the gods

(composite video) ANOTHER Australian has been arrested at Bali’s international airport, accused of a drug trafficking offence punishable by execution. The man, named by customs officials as Michael Sacatides, 43, was arrested at Denpasar’s Ngurah Rai airport after arriving from Bangkok about 11.30am yesterday allegedly with 1.7kg of crystal methamphetamine secreted between the inner and outer panels of a suitcase. Mr Sacatides, filmed being questioned after the arrest, denied the drug was his: “I borrowed a bag to put . . . I don’t have a bag . . . I just borrowed a bag to put some clothes in.” Commonly known as ice in Australia and shabu-shabu in Southeast Asia, methamphetamine is listed in Indonesia as a Type 1 psychotropic drug and importation of an amount greater than 1kg carries a maximum penalty of death. Three Australians – Andrew Chan, Myuran Sukumaran and Scott Rush – are waiting in the “death house” at Bali’s Kerobokan for the completion of judicial reviews of their capital sentences for their roles in the 2005 Bali Nine heroin plot. Mr Sacatides was described by Indonesian officials as a boxing trainer, from Wentworthville in Sydney. It was not immediately clear whether he had been working in Bangkok….. www.theaustralian.com.au An Australian man has been arrested in Bali with almost two kilograms of methamphetamine www.abc.net.au Australian may face death over Bali meth bust www.abc.net.au The island of Bali lies 3.2 km (2 mi) east of Java, and is …