Chinese drug dealer who escaped from Indonesia prison found dead in the forest
20 October, 2020
A Chinese drug trafficker who escaped from an Indonesian jail last month by tunneling through the sewage system has been found dead, police said on Monday (Oct 19).
The authorities found Cai Changpan hanging in a hut in a forest in Bogor, West Java, on Saturday morning.
They had been sweeping the region since Friday after getting information that Cai was seen hiding in the hut.
"The estimated time of death is Friday, October 16, at 8 pm," Jakarta’s police chief Inspector General Nana Sudjana said in a press conference.
Cai, 53, was serving a death sentence in a jail in Tangerang when he dug a hole from his cell into waste pipes and onto a road outside to flee on Sep 14.
He was convicted in 2017 of smuggling methamphetamine.
His cellmates told the police that he previously planned his escape for five to six months using tools from a construction project in the prison kitchen.
He had previously broken out of a Jakarta police detention center in 2017 by breaking a hole in a bathroom wall, police had said.
On Monday, Mr Sudjana said injuries were entirely on Cai's neck. The deceased also tested negative for alcohol and drugs.
"The reason for death was a blunt force on the neck, which blocked the airway leading to suffocation," the police chief added.
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