Fantastic! Bareskrim Polri Uncovers Money Laundering Cases From Drugs Amounting To Rp338.8 Billion

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JAKARTA - The Directorate of Drug Crimes (Dittipidnarkoba) of the National Police Criminal Investigation Unit (Bareskrim) has uncovered a case of Money Laundering (TPPU) from drug crimes by confiscating cash and assets of the suspects whose nominal value is very fantastic, reaching Rp. 338 billion.

"There are three drug cases that we uncovered the TPPU with a time frame from 2017 to 2021," said the Director of the Narcotics Tipid of the Criminal Investigation Police Brigadier General Krisno Siregar in an exposure at the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police, South Jakarta, Thursday, December 16.

The first case involved ML on behalf of suspect ARW (58), who committed his drug crime of distributing ecstasy at a club in Bali.

ARW has been sentenced to life in prison, serving detention at the Nusa Kambangan Prison. ARW was arrested in 2002 by the Bali Police. Then he repeated his actions again, until he was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Police of the Indonesian National Police in 2017.

"Even though the case is 2017, we found the timeframe of the suspect's drug business is still running his business at his workplace," said Krisno.

From the suspect ARW, investigators confiscated Rp3.63 billion in cash and assets in the form of land and buildings spread across Medan, Bali and Sumbawa, with a value of Rp294.9 billion.

"We have confiscated and this case is in the process, hopefully P-21 (complete-ed)," said Krisno.

As for the second case, the disclosure of methamphetamine at Bakauheni Port last October, with the suspect HS as the dealer.

From the suspect HS, the police confiscated evidence of assets in the form of land and buildings as well as vehicles with a value of Rp9.82 billion.

Meanwhile, the third ML case was revealed from the case of illicit drug trafficking in Yogyakarta. A total of five suspects have been charged with TPPU.

"We got money from the suspect 2 million Singapore dollars, at the same time we also confiscated IDR 2.75 billion from the suspect's accounts," said Krisno.

In addition, the police also confiscated the suspect's assets in the form of houses and buildings as well as vehicles worth Rp. 4.1 billion.

"The National Police remains committed, it is not enough to take drug-drugs action just to confiscate evidence, but there must be an impoverishment strategy, so that efforts to eradicate drug crimes are maximized," said Krisno.

The Head of the Public Information Bureau (Karopenmas) of the Public Relations Division of the Police Brigadier General Rusdi Hartono added that drug crime as an organized crime is a scourge for the Indonesian nation.

Rusdi revealed that there were seven suspects with other evidence confiscated in the form of money and assets if the sum totaled Rp338 billion.

"This value is quite a large number. This is part of how the Police and other agencies are trying to optimally eradicate narcotics in the country," said Krisno.