LY, a 48-year-old woman, a resident of Surabaya, has served three sentences for money laundering in 2005, 2006 and 2011. Now LY is being secured by the police again with the same case.
Head of Public Relations of the East Java Regional Police, Kombes Pol Gatot Repli Handoko said that the LY mode was to offer investments related to land acquisition in the Osowilangun area of Surabaya by promising benefits to victims.
"So that the victim suffered a loss of 48 billion and the mode concerned also gave a check to the victim, but after checking with the bank it could not be cashed," said Gatot when revealing the case, Thursday (6/5/2021).
Evidence that was successfully secured was 7 BCA Bank checks along with 7 letters of rejection from Bank BCA Kusuma Bangsa Surabaya Sub-Branch, 2 Toyota Fortuner VRZ cars in 2020, 4 units of Mercedes benz type cars, 3 units of Pick Up cars, 6 hours. hands of various brands ranging from Rolex, Franck Muller, 3 three rings Natural Blue Saphire, and cash as much as Rp. 100 million.
Wadirkrimum Polda Jatim AKBP Nasrun Pasaribu explained that LY had served three sentences with the same case in 2005, 2006 and 2011. He has been handled by the Surabaya Police.
The suspect has the expertise to be able to approach someone to convince him, the victim is finally unconscious. Within 6 months, the suspect gradually gives Rp. 48 billion to the suspect.
"From the evidence here we are wearing money laundering so that we wear TPPU so that we can return the assets of the reporter, so that the assets are not lost so that we can return them to the reporter," he said.
Nasrun also said that the suspect offered to invest in land to the victim, but the land turned out to be fictitious. "That investment is very promising and the land makes (the victim) tempted, but after we check it turns out that it doesn't belong to him but someone else who is currently in a case," said Nasrun.
Money laundering suspects are subject to Article 378 KUHP and / or 372 KUHP and / or Article 3, Article 4, Article 5 of Indonesian Law No. 8 of 2010 concerning the criminal act of fraud and / or embezzlement and / or money laundering with a penalty of 4 years and 20 years.
