West Java Police Arrest Cooperative Money Breakers And Steal Identity

BANDUNG - The Directorate of Special Criminal Investigation (Ditreskrimsus) of the West Java Police (Jabar) arrested the perpetrators who broke into money from a cooperative and traded customer identities to earn billions of rupiah.

Director of the Special Criminal Investigation of the West Java Regional Police Kombes Arief Rachman said that in this case two people were arrested, namely MR and MF. The cooperative that became the victim was a cooperative with the initials SMS.

"Losses are estimated to be in the billions of rupiah, and only Rp. 316 million was recorded from one police report," said Arief, at the West Java Police Headquarters, Bandung City, Thursday, December 2.

According to him, the case came to light from the police report. From the report, the police then conducted a number of investigations and found the practice of selling data on cooperative members or customers.

"Then carry out further investigations and get the address of the suspected suspect in Palembang, South Sumatra," he said again as reported by Antara.

After being arrested, one of the suspects, MR, admitted that he had activated the savings and loan cooperative application on behalf of the members of the cooperative. MF also plays a role in data theft and burglary of cooperative customer funds.

"He (MF) in cooperation with the outside that we managed to catch," he also said.

So far, the police, he said, are still conducting an in-depth investigation to determine the articles that will be charged with the two perpetrators.