Bareskrim Sends An Extension Letter Of The Arrest Of BNI Burglars

JAKARTA - Bareskrim Polri investigators sent a letter requesting an extension of Maria Pauline Lumowa's detention period to the DKI Jakarta High Court for the next 40 days. The goal is that investigators can further examine the suspects in the BNI Bank burglary.

Head of the Public Information Division of the National Police's Public Relations Division, Kombes Ahmad Ramadhan, said the application letter was registered with number B3559.VII Res 22/2020 / Dit Tipidsus dated July 23, 2020. With the letter being sent, investigators are just waiting for an answer or confirmation from the DKI High Prosecutor's Office. Jakarta.

"According to the Kabareskrim letter, it is addressed to the Head of the DKI Jakarta High Prosecutor's Office to apply for an extension of the MPL detention," said Ahmad at the Police Headquarters, Friday, July 24.

If later the request is granted, he said, Maria will serve a detention period until September 7, starting from July 29, 2020.

In addition, related to Maria's condition, who was previously said to be sick, Ahmad said that the woman who was fugitive for a dozen years had improved her condition. In fact, his family often visited him during his detention.

"MPL is in good health and he always visits by his family but according to the visiting hours and time specified," said Ahmad.

Meanwhile, Maria Pauline Lumowa is a fugitive from the Indonesian government. This is because he is a suspect in the cash burglary case at the Bank BNI Kebayoran Baru branch using a fictitious Letter of Credit (L / C) mode.

In the period from October 2002 to July 2003, Bank BNI suffered a loss of 136 million US dollars and 56 million euros or the equivalent of Rp 1.7 trillion based on the current exchange rate. This amount of money is a loan from PT Gramarindo Group owned by Maria Pauline Lumowa and Adrian Waworuntu.

BNI Bank began to feel suspicion. Because, the borrowing process which should be quite difficult because of the large nominal it runs very easily. It is suspected that PT Gramarindo Group was assisted by unscrupulous employees of Bank BNI because the loan application still agreed with L / C guarantees from Dubai Bank Kenya Ltd., Rosbank Switzerland, Middle East Bank Kenya Ltd., and The Wall Street Banking Corp.

Moreover, some of the banks that became the guarantor were not correspondence banks of Bank BNI. This suspicion grew stronger in June 2003. BNI investigated the financial transactions of PT Gramarindo Group. As a result, the company never made exports or was not in accordance with what was reported during the loan process.

Until finally, BNI reported the alleged fictitious L / C to the National Police Headquarters. However, Maria Pauline Lumowa left Indonesia by going to Singapore in September 2003 or a month before being named a suspect.

From the results of the investigation, it was found that the woman had often been in the Netherlands in 2009 and often went back and forth to Singapore. In fact, it is known that Maria has been a Dutch citizen since 1979. Thus, the Indonesian government tried to apply for extradition to the Dutch government twice, to be precise in 2010 and 2014.

However, the Dutch Government rejected the request. Instead, it provides an option for Maria Pauline Lumowa to be tried in the Netherlands. Until finally, the woman was arrested on July 16, 2019, according to an Interpol red notice published in 2004.