Fake Shaman Who Doubled Money For Killer Employees At Karawang Hospital Arrested By Police

Deputy Chief of Karawang Police, Kompol Prasetyo (right). (ANTARA/Ali Khumaini)

The Karawang Regency Police, West Java arrested two money-multiplier shamans who were suspected of killing an employee of the Karawang Hospital in a plantation in the Ciampel District, Karawang.

"The two people who were arrested each had the initials S (58) and A (38)," said the Deputy Chief of the Karawang Police, Kompol Prasetyo, during an exposure to the disclosure of the case reported by ANTARA, Friday, November 10.

He said that the two perpetrators were father and son who both worked as shamans who duplicated money.

The arrests of the two people began when an employee of the Karawang Regional General Hospital (RSUD) was found dead in a plantation owned by a resident of Mekarmukti Village, Kutamekar Village, Ciampel District, Karawang on Tuesday (7/11).

The victim was Fredy Abdul Halil Alias Mantri (41) who worked as an employee or honorary at the Karawang Hospital.

For the motive for the murder, because the perpetrator felt hurt at the victim's words which threatened to report to the police after it was discovered by the victim that the perpetrator had opened the practice of a fake shaman who doubled money.

This victim had become a "patient" of the fake shaman who doubled the money. However, the shaman did not fulfill the desire to multiply the money.

The Deputy Chief of Police said that according to the examination carried out, the two perpetrators, who are father and son, had repeatedly committed fraud against the shaman mode who could double the money.

"For perpetrator S, the father of perpetrator A. They have carried out their actions as shamans who multiply money from 6 months ago," he said.

The two perpetrators were arrested by the police from the Karawang Police on Tuesday (7/11).

From the arrest, the police confiscated a number of evidences such as a plastic tube, six ritual reading paper, charcoal fragments from burning evidence (tree trunk), a machete, and four two-wheeled vehicles belonging to the victim and the suspect.

To account for his actions, the two perpetrators are now being held at the Karawang Police Headquarters detention center.

Both were charged with Article 378 of the Criminal Code and/or Article 351 paragraph 3 of the Criminal Code and/or 338 regarding fraud or about persecution that resulted in death, with a penalty of 15 years in prison.