Expert Staff Of Walkot Sukabumi Arrested For Fraud Of IDR 137 Million

The Sukabumi City Police Criminal Investigation Unit (Satreskrim) arrested an official from the Sukabumi City Government (Pemkot), West Java, for allegedly committing fraud and embezzlement of money worth Rp. 137 million.

"The mode used by the suspect was to ensnare his victim by promising a number of projects in the service he was leading at that time as long as the victim wanted to hand over the money he asked for," said Sukabumi City Police Chief AKBP Ari Setyawan Wibowo as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, December 13.

Meanwhile, the Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of the Sukabumi City Police, AKP Bagus Panuntun, said that the action taken by the suspect was AS (57), when the alleged perpetrator had not yet become the Expert Staff of the Mayor of Sukabumi.

This fraud and embezzlement case was carried out in 2022, when the suspect was still the Head of the Sukabumi City Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Security Service (DKP3).

This case began when the suspect AS met his victim, Andri Suhendi, at the CV Makmur Jaya Office, Jalan Pelda Suryanta, Nanggeleng Village, Citamiang District, Sukabumi City on January 13, 2022 at around 17.00 WIB.

At the office, there was a conversation between the victim and the suspect regarding various projects in the Sukabumi City DKP3. Finally, both of them agreed, where the victim paid Rp137 million to get a work package, while the suspect promised to provide 17 work packages.

The victim unexpectedly handed over the hundreds of millions of rupiah by paying in installments twice in January and February 2022 via interbank transfers.

"The US suspect, who is known to be friendly and kind to anyone, is certainly not having the slightest feeling that he has been allegedly deceived by Sukabumi City Government officials," said Bagus.

However, after waiting for a while, even the suspect no longer serves as the Head of the Sukabumi City DKP3, the promised work package has not been received by the victim. Annoyed, finally in mid-2023 the victim reported to the Sukabumi Police.

After an investigation and investigation, the suspect could no longer dodge and confessed to investigators that he had done what the victim had reported.

"For the purposes of further investigation and development, our suspect is detained in the detention cell of the Sukabumi City Police Headquarters while waiting for the trial process," he said.

The suspect was charged with Article 378 of the Criminal Code regarding fraud and 372 of the Criminal Code concerning embezzlement.