2 Perpetrators Of Manipulation Of Gold Gram Cards At Pegadaian Manokwari Arrested, Earns IDR 220 Million Profit

MANOKWARI - The Manokwari Police, West Papua, arrested two perpetrators with the initials B and SR who manipulated gold gram levels with copper elements to benefit from 20 gold sales transactions at six Pegadaian offices.

Manokwari Deputy Chief of Police Commissioner Agustina Sineri said the two perpetrators manipulated gold levels, then sold them to Pegadaian for 4 months in February 'May 2024.

"The copper element was then coated with gold by the two perpetrators so that the weight would increase when weighed," said Sineri as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, June 5.

The results of the police investigator's examination, the two perpetrators claimed to have made a profit of Rp220 million from the crime of manipulating gold levels by adding copper elements.

The police charged the two perpetrators with Article 378 in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) e and (2) e jo. Article 56 paragraph (1) e and (2) e jo. Article 64 paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) of the Criminal Code (KUHP).

"Now we have secured the two perpetrators to be held accountable for criminal acts of gold fraud," said Sineri.

Meanwhile, Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of the Manokwari Police, AKP Raja Putra Napitupulu, explained that the two perpetrators had their respective roles in carrying out the criminal act of fraud.

Perpetrator B played a role in fused and coated copper with gold because he had worked as an employee of a gold shop in Manokwari, while the perpetrators of SR were tasked with selling gold whose content had been manipulated.

"Initially they bought gold, then processed it with a tool owned by B. The gold sold in it was copper with a composition of 60 percent copper, 40 percent gold," said Napitupulu.