Metro Police Chief Asked To Immediately Arrest Suspected Perpetrators Of Fraud Rp2.7 Billion

JAKARTA - Metro Jaya Police Chief Inspector General Karyoto was asked to immediately arrest the President Director of PT Smardjaya, Siti Marlina Br Lubis, who is suspected of committing fraud or embezzlement of funds amounting to Rp2.7 billion.

The request was conveyed by David Salim, always a representative of the victim named LX who is a foreign citizen (WNA) at Polda Metro, Tuesday, October 15.

"We asked the Metro Jaya Police Chief Inspector General Karyoto to arrest the perpetrators because this is clearly a fraud case," said David Salim.

David Salim also hopes that the fraud case will have legal certainty from the Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the Polda Metro Jaya. Because, for four years there has been no legal certainty from the investigators.

LX hopes that the case, which has been going on for three years and six months, will have legal certainty. Because as a foreign national, he does not understand the bureaucratic rules in Indonesia, therefore he asked me to represent him," he said.

Meanwhile, Deputy Chairperson (LPPN-RI) of the Indonesian State Administrators Monitoring Institute, Ahmad Muhammad, who is also the victim's attorney, asked Inspector General Karyoto to pay attention to the case.

He revealed that the case registered with LP/2082/IV/YAN/2.5/2021/SPKT PMJ has been without progress for three years from the Jakarta Metro Police Dirreskrimsus investigators.

"Today we are accompanying witnesses because they will undergo examination by investigators, for the examination material we do not know because we were waiting outside the building," said Ahmad.

"We also hope that the Metro Police Chief will pay attention to the fraud case that has been a victim of our client," he continued.

The fraud case began with the procurement of videotrons in a number of locations in Jakarta, one of which was in the National Monument (Monas) area, which was won by PT Smardjaya.

PT Smardjaya's officials came to our client from abroad, namely LX, by giving a promise that the project would be very profitable. The condition is that LX entrepreneurs are asked to provide an initial capital of Rp. 2.7 billion for this project," Ahmad explained.

However, over time, the success fee did not exist. Until finally the victim (LX) through his attorney asked to report the case to the Polda Metro Jaya.

The LX entrepreneur was given a success fee promise for the project's victory. Long story short, the project was running thanks to the support of funds from LX entrepreneurs which were disbursed in several stages. But nothing," said Ahmad.