Four Years Of Controlling Drugs In Prisons, Prisoners In Central Java Are Helped By Their Boyfriends To Collect Billions Of Rupiah

JAKARTA - The Directorate of Drugs at the Central Java Police (Central Java) has again revealed the crime of money laundering (TPPU) from the proceeds of drug sales. This was stated by the Head of the Central Java Police, Inspector General Pol. Ahmad Luthfi, in a press conference at the Central Java Police Headquarters, Wednesday, December 29.

Ahmad Luthfi said, from the results of the disclosure of the case, a perpetrator with the initials FSR, a resident of Sambirejo, Kab. Sragen. In addition to securing the perpetrators, officers also secured a number of evidences in cash amounting to Rp. 1 billion, 4 cars, 3 motorbikes, and 1 house suspected of being the proceeds of a crime. The total value of the evidence that was secured was more than IDR 4 billion rupiah.

The Kapolda explained that all the evidence that was secured was the result of a money laundering crime committed by an inmate (convict) for a drug case with the initials JW.

"So JW was arrested by BNN in 2014 for evidence of possession of 1 kilo of methamphetamine and has served a sentence of 11 years. However, from 2017 to 2021 he was in charge of controlling drug trafficking in Central Java from inside prisons," said the Kapolda.

The Director of Drugs at the Central Java Police, Pol Kombes Lutfi Martadian, who accompanied the Central Java Police Chief at a press conference, said that the disclosure of this case began with the arrest of a person with the initials TW by the Central Java Police Narcotics Directorate for possession of 18 grams of crystal methamphetamine in a hotel in Kab. Karanganyar, last March 22.

"As a result of the development, the suspect admitted that the ownership of the goods came on orders from JW, whose status is as a prisoner," said Lutfi Martadian.

This was then followed up by the Central Java Police Narcotics Directorate in coordination with the Ministry of Law and Human Rights and the Central Java Regional Office of BCA to investigate the alleged money laundering offense committed by the suspect JW.

From the results of the investigation, it was revealed that there was a suspicious flow of funds in the account controlled by the suspects JW and F who were JW's girlfriends.

In carrying out his actions, JW from inside the prison ordered other people to help run the drug business to be resold to other people. The money from the sale is then transferred to a BCA account in the name of DN. It is known that the account belonged to the wife of the suspect, JW, who died in 2013 and was later used by JW to collect the proceeds from the sale of methamphetamine.

The results of the development by the officers then led to the role of F who was suspected of receiving and spending money from the narcotics crime from JW.

Furthermore, on November 4, 2021, suspect F was arrested from his home in Sragen. From the results of the examination and investigation, it was revealed that suspect F played a role in helping to provide JW with a bank account which was then used for narcotics transactions.

"For four years from 2017 to 2021, he (suspect JW) operated the money in collaboration with suspect F, whose status is JW's girlfriend, by managing several accounts, all of which are the proceeds of crime and the suspect has acknowledged that," said Kombes Lutfi Martadian.

The suspect is threatened with articles 3, 4, and 5 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Eradication of the Crime of Money Laundering and article 137 letter (a) of Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics with a maximum penalty of 20 years imprisonment and a maximum fine of Rp. 10 billion.