Police Raid Elpiji Gas Pengoplos Warehouse In Kebayoran Lama

The police arrested one seller of LPG gas in the Kebayoran Lama area, South Jakarta. The Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of the South Jakarta Metro Police, Kompol Irwandhy, said the perpetrator with the initials RS (46) was arrested on Monday, May 8 at his place of business.

"At his place of business, Kebayoran Lama. It's different from his house," Irwandhy told reporters at the South Jakarta Metro Police, Thursday, May 11.

He explained that the modus operandi of the perpetrators was to inject non-subsidized LPG gas into subsidized gas. It is known that this action has been carried out for the last five years, to increase his income.

"Opolating or transferring the contents of the 3 kilogram subsidized gas cylinder, transferred to non-subsidized gas cylinders with sizes, 12 and 5.5 kilograms," he said.

He added that the Deputy Head of Criminal Investigation at the South Jakarta Metro Police, Kompol Hendrikus Yossy, said that when carrying out his action, the hospital usually puts a 12-kilogram tube that will be filled into a bucket, then the bucket is filled with ice cubes.

"Then the 3 kilogram tube is placed on or on his head. So the head is faced with the head, then connected with the injection," he said.

The 12 kilogram gas cylinder that was filled by the hospital was then sealed, so it was as if the gas cylinder was official from the government.

Then, continued Hendrikus, the mixed tubes were sold to the public.

"There are two targets targeted by the perpetrators. The first is household, the second is shop, at different prices," he said.