Suspect Of BNI Bilyet Giro Counterfeiter Detained By Makassar Prosecutor, The Evidence Is Precious Metals To Property

MAKASSAR - The Public Prosecutor (JPU) of the Makassar District Attorney (Kejari) in South Sulawesi has detained a suspect forging a bill of lading for a BNI customer with the initials MBS, after being handed over by investigators to the Directorate of Economic Crimes and Special Crimes at the National Police Headquarters.

"Yes, that's right, we have received the handover of the suspect MBS along with evidence of several documents, cash, precious metals, jewelry, and property", said Makassar District Attorney General Crime Section Head, Andi Hairil Akhmad, quoted by Antara, Wednesday, November 10.

The suspect MBS, a former employee of Bank BNI Makassar Main Branch Office, was handed over by the National Police Headquarters team to the Makassar District Attorney temporary office, Letjen Hertasning Street Makassar to be detained at the South Sulawesi Police Detention Center.

The submission of the suspect is a follow-up to the results of the investigation by the investigator and has been declared complete by the public prosecutor, after examining the case files and meeting the formal and material requirements.

The suspect is suspected of having multiple layers of articles, namely Article 49 paragraph (1) letter a, b or paragraph (2) letter b of Law Number 10 of 1998 concerning Banking and Article 3 and Article 5 of Law Number 5 of 2010 concerning Prevention and Eradication Money Laundering Crime.

"The suspect MBS has violated the Banking Law and money laundering offenses which resulted in the loss of the customer's victims around IDR 65 billion", said Hairil.

Currently, the Makassar Public Prosecutor's Office has detained the suspect MBS for the next 20 days, and then prepared the administration for the delegating process to the Makassar District Court for trial.

"The suspect has been detained because he meets the subjective and objective requirements as regulated in the Criminal Procedure Code, where we place the suspect in custody at the South Sulawesi Police Detention Center", said prosecutor Hairil.

This case began when several customers of the BNI Makassar Main Branch Office claimed to have lost their deposit funds in June 2021.

The customers are Hendrik and Heng Pau Tek with a value of IDR 20 billion. Furthermore, in September 2021, another customer, Andi Idris Manggabarani also stated that he had lost his deposit amounting to Rp45 billion.

Customers who lost money in their deposits then reported the incident to BNI. Responding to the complaint, the management of Bank BNI in Jakarta then reported it to the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police Headquarters.

The perpetrator was later named as a suspect suspected of committing crimes against banking and money laundering.