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An individual staff member of the South Tangerang National Unity Agency (Kesbangpol), Hendra Wijaya was arrested on suspicion of fraud in the receipt of honorary employees/ Photo: IST

TANGERANG - Police arrested an individual staff member of the South Tangerang National Unity Agency (Kesbangpol), Hendra Wijaya. He was arrested on suspicion of fraud in accepting honorary employees in his place.

Pondok Aren Police Chief, Kompol Bambang Askar Sodiq confirmed the incident. The perpetrator was arrested on Sunday, November 19, in the early hours of the morning.

"Yes, that's right, it's still being investigated," said Pondok Aren Police Chief, Kompol Bambang Askar Sodiq in a short message, Tuesday, November 21.

Bambang said that apart from arresting the perpetrators, his party also found evidence of one receipt with a nominal value of Rp. 125 million and a sum of money up to rupiah of millions.

"Furthermore, the team brought the suspect and evidence for investigation," he said.

For further steps, said Bambang, his party will arrest other perpetrators with the initials HE and SA. It is suspected that he also played a role in this fraud case.

"As a follow-up, the team is currently searching for other perpetrators with the initials HE and SA," he concluded.

Chronological

Regarding chronology, Bambang explained that the incident started when a person with the initials SA offered a job for the victim's child on April 4, 2023.

Then, SA introduced the victim to the suspect Hendra Wijaya who claimed to work at the South Tangerang City Regional Revenue Agency.

"HW offered the victim's child to work at the Samsat Office on condition that he had to pay Rp150 million. However, the victim only agreed to Rp125 million which was then paid in cash or cash with proof of receipt," he explained.

After that the victim and her child were invited to the Ciledug Samsat office to meet the woman with the initials HE by submitting the application file.

"However, until now the victim's child has not yet found the promised job even though the dowry has been paid in full," said Bambang Askar.

For this incident, the victim then reported to the Pondok Aren Police on July 25, 2023, with the case of alleged fraud and embezzlement as referred to in Article 378 in conjunction with Article 372 of the Criminal Code.