Doing Business From Prison After Arrested In 2014, This Drug Convict In Semarang Has Assets Reaching IDR 4 Billion

A woman from Sragen, Central Java, was named a suspect in the money laundering offense case revealed by the Central Java Police in Semarang, Wednesday. (AMONG)

SEMARANG - The Directorate of Drug Investigation of the Central Java Police confiscated assets worth Rp. 4 billion belonging to convicts of narcotics abuse cases suspected of originating from the illicit business.

Director of Drug Investigation at the Central Java Police, Kombes Lutfi Martadian, said the owner of the illicit assets was a prisoner named Johan Wahyudi. Johan was charged with Law No. 8 of 2010 concerning the Eradication of the Crime of Money Laundering (TPPU).

Details of Johan's assets include Rp1.8 billion in cash stored in a bank account, a house in Sragen Regency and a number of motorized vehicles.

Apart from Johan, the police also named a woman named Feri Surya Ratnawati (30), a resident of the Regency, on suspicion of helping the suspect Johan Wahyudi in managing the money from the narcotics business.

"This FSR suspect is the lover of suspect JW," he said in Semarang, Antara, Wednesday, December 29.

He explained that Johan Wahyudi was a prisoner who was arrested in 2014 and has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. From prison, he said, Johan was suspected of still controlling the narcotics business.

The money from the illicit business is kept in a number of accounts and some of it is used to buy houses and motor vehicles.

"The money from the narcotics business has been collected from 2017 to 2021," he said