TNI Members In Purbalingga Cheated, Business Capital Money Rp250 Million Raib

Ipda Setyan asked the suspect in the fraud case and/embezzlement there was a press conference at the Purbalingga Police Headquarters, Tuesday (28/3/2023). (ANTARA)

PURBALINGGA - Purbalingga Police managed to uncover a fraud or embezzlement case committed by a resident of Purbalingga Lor Village, Purbalingga Regency, Central Java, against a member of the Indonesian Army with an alleged loss of Rp250 million.

"This fraud case was carried out by the suspect with the initials RS (45) in the warehouse of the Purbalingga Metal Industry Development UPTD (Pilog) on March 19, 2019, at around 21.00," said Head of the Purbalingga Police Satreskrim AKP Suyanto as quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, March 28.

In this case, he said, the hospital borrowed Rp250 million from the victim with the initials AN (45), a resident of Banyumas Regency, with the guarantee of a 474 square meter plot of land listed in the Debt Tax Return (SPPT) located in Meri Village, Kutasari District, Purbalingga, as well as the right to lease the UPTD Pilog Purbalingga warehouse whose lease period is until 2025.

The suspect promised that the money to be used as capital for the exhaust business was returned six months after the loan transfer.

However, until the promised deadline, the hospital did not return the loan to AN as the victim.

In fact, the plot of land and the right to lease the warehouse that was used as collateral did not belong to the hospital, but belonged to someone else.

Therefore, the victim, who is a member of the Indonesian Army, immediately reported the alleged fraud case to the Purbalingga Police on September 19, 2022, which was followed up with an investigation by Unit 1 Satreskrim.

"After an investigation, we finally managed to secure the hospital when the person concerned returned to his home on March 21, 2023," said Kasatreskrim.

He said the evidence that was secured included a statement dated March 19, 2019 related to the delivery of business capital from the victim to the suspect, a receipt for handing over Rp250 million dated March 19, 2019, a fictitious sale and purchase letter dated March 21, 2017 between the suspect and the owner of the land that was guaranteed to the victim.

In addition, one receipt for land sale and purchase payments amounting to Rp180 million dated March 22, 2017, one UN SPPT sheet NOP: 33,03,070,009,001-0050.0 of 2018 dated February 26, 2018, one tax payment certificate dated September 14, 2018, and one certificate from the Head of UPTD Pilog dated January 5, 2019.

"In order to account for his actions, the suspect was charged with Article 378 of the Criminal Code and/or 372 of the Criminal Code concerning Fraud and/or Embezzlement, with a maximum imprisonment of four years," said AKP Suyanto.

Meanwhile, the suspect RS admitted that he had known AN for a long time, and he offered to share the proceeds with the victim for the loan money to be used for businesses in the manufacturing of exhausts. "It's just that the exhaust business doesn't work," he kilah.