Police Uncover Illegal Clothing Business of Rp669 Billion in Bali, 7 Buses and Hundreds of Bal Disita

DENPASAR - The Illegal Importation Law Enforcement Task Force (Satgas Gakkum) of the Directorate of Economic and Special Crimes (Dittipideksus) of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police arrested two suspects of money laundering (TPPU) and illegal import of used clothing or thrifting from South Korea (South Korea).

Dittipideksus Brigjen Ade Safri Simanjuntak said the two suspects with initials ZK are residents of Denpasar City and SB who are residents of Tabanan Regency, Bali.

The two were arrested after officers conducted an investigation and investigation for 2 months and the value of the seized assets reached Rp. 22 billion.

"For (used clothing) goods sent to the warehouses owned by ZT and SB in Tabanan, and sold to traders in Bali, Surabaya and Bandung, in the period 2021 to 2025," said Brigadier General Ade Safri, in a press conference at the Ngurah Rai GOR Denpasar Bali, Monday, December 15.

The two suspects carried out their actions by ordering from two Foreign Nationals (WNA) from South Korea with initials KDS and KIM, to order used clothes in South Korea and send them to Indonesia.

"The suspects ZT and SB carried out, ordering goods from abroad through a Korean citizen contact by paying through several suspect accounts, including accounts in the name of others and through remittance services," he added.

The trifting goods were smuggled from South Korea through a transporter or sea expedition service operating from the Port of Klang, Malaysia. The goods then entered the Indonesian customs, then continued with a transporter or land expedition service to the storage warehouse in Tabanan, Bali.

"The suppliers of goods from South Korea, namely KDS and KIM, send goods to the Port of Klang, Malaysia. Then, from there, the documents were successfully seized by the investigative team. We were able to identify the bill of lading (BL) documents," he added.

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In the document it is stated that there is one entity or trifting goods and the results of coordination with the Directorate General of Customs can be identified as entering the customs area in Indonesia and where one of the trifting enters one of the places in Pekanbaru, Riau

"It is stated (in the document) that one of the places is in Pekanbaru, Riau, and it is a nominee company. When it was traced by the investigation team, it was an oil palm forest area. Then this nominee company, using the services of transporters to pick up their goods at the Port of Klang, Malaysia to enter the Indonesian customs area," he said.

"The results of coordination with the Directorate General of Customs indicate that it entered through unofficial ports (in Indonesia)," he continued.

In addition, the suspect ZT is known to be the boss of the bus transportation company PT.KYM whose funds are suspected of being laundered from the sale of this prohibited goods.

The investigation revealed that the modus operandi of the two suspects was very structured.

"They transfer to suppliers using accounts in their own name, accounts in the name of others, even using student profiles, and through remittance services," he added.

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Based on the analysis of PPATK's financial transactions, the total funds sent abroad reached IDR 367 billion. In fact, there are strong indications of a trade-based money laundering scheme or trade-based money laundering that is engineered to look like legitimate export-import transactions.

"Based on the analysis of financial transactions by PPATK, the total illegal import transactions carried out by the two suspects ZT and SB during the period 2021 to 2025 amounted to

"Rp669 billion. Where of the number of transactions, the transactions sent abroad or to South Korea reached Rp367 billion," he said.

The fantastic profits from this illegal business were disguised or known as mingling or mixing illegal funds with legal businesses by the two suspects.

Most of the proceeds of crime were used to expand the transportation bus business of PT KYM owned by ZT and also their clothing store, so that the profits from the sale of illegal goods were mixed and seemed to come from legitimate business results.

"The suspect ZT disguised the money from the crime to be included in his bus transportation business. So with the disguise modus, the origin of the money from this crime so that it looks legal and one of them is to mix this illegal fund with his legal business, namely related to this bus transportation company," he said.

For the seized evidence, 698 bales of imported used clothing were admitted to be owned by BHR with an asset value of Rp. 3 billion, 72 bales of imported used clothing, admitted to be owned by suspect ZT with an asset value of Rp. 288 million, 76 bales of imported used clothing admitted to be owned by suspect SB, with an asset value of Rp. 300 million.

Furthermore, 7 units of buses whose ownership was recognized by the suspect ZT with an asset value of Rp. 15 billion, money from a number of accounts of Rp. 2,554,220,212 and 1 unit of a Mitsubishi Pajero car with the number plate DK 1195 ACP belonging to the suspect ZT with a value of Rp. 500 million, 1 unit Toyota Raize car with the number plate DK 1243 HRP Rp. 220 million.

"The total assets seized amounted to Rp. 22 billion," he said.

For their actions, ZT and SB were charged with layered articles, namely Article 111 jo Article 47 paragraph (1) and/or Article 112 paragraph (2) jo Article 51 paragraph (2) of Law Number 7 of 2014 concerning Trade, as amended in the Employment Creation Law with a maximum sentence of 5 years imprisonment and/or a maximum fine of Rp. 5 billion.

In addition, they were also charged with Articles 3, 4, and 5 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Prevention and Eradication of Money Laundering (TPPU) jo Article 64 of the Criminal Code.