Tangerang District Court Judge Visits Jasmine Residence Pondok Aren, Holds Trial On Alleged Developer Fraud

Jasmine Residence housing which is the object of alleged developer fraud/ Photo: Jehan/ VOI

TANGERANG - The Tangerang District Court (PN) panel, Friday, March 11, afternoon, checked the Jasmine Residence housing, Pondok Aren, which was the object of a suspected fraud case.

VOI monitoring at the location, Tangerang District Court Chief Justice Agus Iskandar checked and conducted a trial on the spot. In addition, the attorney for the victim of the fraud, Tody Indra Sutami Nasution, was also seen.

Agus said the purpose of checking was to check the physical form, area, cluster boundaries, and others.

"Yes, the location is correct or not, there is a dispute whether it's true or not, right, this is how many houses there are, their widths, boundaries (clusters), like what we did earlier," he said.

After examining a number of things, Agus conducted a brief on-site trial. Furthermore, the agenda for the hearing for the acceptance of conclusions will be on March 23, 2022.

"Next is the conclusion," he said.

Previously, it was reported that 23 people were victims of housing developer fraud in Pondok Kacang Barat, Pondok Aren, South Tangerang City (Tangsel).

According to the information reported, the land certificate covering an area of 1,450 square meters belonging to the victim was allegedly secretly pawned by the suspect Samantri.

MS (42), one of the victims, told how he and dozens of other people bought a house in the Yasmin Bintaro housing estate, Pondok Aren, South Tangerang with various prices ranging from Rp. 600 million to Rp. 650 million, in 2018. MS said, since 2018 until now. the house is not finished yet.

"Initially, we had around 23 people, they bought a house in the Yasmin Bintaro housing estate, the price varied around Rp. 600-650 million. That's been from 2018. So, it should have been a year," said MS when he met at Yasmin Bintaro Housing, Pondok Aren, South Tangerang City, Wednesday, February 23.

“It keeps getting more and more unclear, some of the buildings are only 90 percent finished, many are still 50 percent. So it's not all finished yet, while all the money has come in," he continued.

MS assesses that the developer is unable to pay compensation or continue the construction.

“Developers are increasingly unable to fulfill their promises. If the construction is delayed, he will have to pay compensation, fines, he will increasingly be unable to fulfill the fines," he said.