South Kalimantan Police Search For Drug Gembong Assets Fredy Pratama

Fredy Pratama's Face Is A Drug Lord Who Is Wanted By The Police/DOK VOI

BANJARMASIN - The South Kalimantan Regional Police (Polda Kalsel) continues to trace the assets of drug kingpin Fredy Pratama, which is allegedly still the modus operandi of money laundering from the proceeds from the shabu and ecstasy business.

"Asset tracing continues to be carried out in collaboration with the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police, because it is possible that the assets are still there," said the Director of Drug Investigation at the South Kalimantan Police, Kombes Kelana Jaya, in Banjarmasin, as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, October 11.

In addition to tracking assets related to the disclosure of money laundering crimes, the police are also intensively still conducting investigations from the Fredy Pratama network.

Previously, a number of dealers arrested by the South Kalimantan Police in the last five years starting from 2019 to 2023 were allegedly still linked to the Fredy Pratama network, which is from Banjarmasin.

Kelana said that a total of 92 suspects in prominent cases were revealed by the South Kalimantan Regional Police and the South Kalimantan Police, which indicated that there was still an international network controlled by Fredy Pratama with his accomplices.

The total evidence confiscated was 1.03 tons of crystal methamphetamine and 284,228 pills of ecstasy and 763.97 grams of ecstasy powder.

Meanwhile, Bareskrim together with the Directorate of Drug Investigation of the South Kalimantan Police arrested Fredy's parents who live in Banjarmasin, namely Lian Silas in a money laundering case (TPPU) resulting from drug crimes.

A total of 14 assets in the form of land and buildings as well as four four four-wheeled vehicles and one large motorbike that have been confiscated including a three-story building on Jalan Djok Mentaya Banjarmasin which is used by Lian Silas to run the Shanghai Palace restaurant business, the Mentaya Inn Hotel and Cafe Beluga.

Fredy Pratama is still declared a fugitive and indicated to be abroad, so the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police cooperates with the Malaysian Police, the Thai Police, the United States Narcotics Agency or Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and other relevant agencies to hunt down the drug kingpin.