Baintelkam, National Police Headquarters, Unloads The Warehouse For Consolidating 3 Kg Gas Cylinders To 12 Kg Cylinders

3 kilogram gas cylinder used to inject 12 kilogram gas cylinder as evidence/ Photo: Doc. Police Headquarters

JAKARTA - The Baintelkam Task Force at the National Police Headquarters revealed the practice of mixing 3 kilograms of subsidized gas cylinders into 12 kilograms of non-subsidized gas cylinders in Duwet Village, Brujul Village, Karanganyar, Central Java, Wednesday, April 13.

Officers also secured one person named Dimas (31) who played an active role in the activity. According to Dimas' confession to officers, he had been doing it for the last 3 months.

According to the officer's statement, the practice was carried out in a closed warehouse in Duwet Village, a densely populated neighborhood.

3 kilogram gas cylinder used to inject 12 kilogram gas cylinder as evidence/ Photo: Doc. Police Headquarters

According to the perpetrators, in one day they can produce 125 gas cylinders measuring 12 kilograms and 550 gas cylinders measuring 3 kilograms.

In a written statement, it was stated that the modus operandi of the perpetrators was by buying up 3 kg gas cylinders at a number of stalls in Karanganyar to stalls in Solo.

The contents of the 3 kilogram gas cylinder were then transferred to a 12 kilogram gas cylinder using an 80 centimeter hot water hose and a modified regulator. On average, the process of moving 3 kilograms of gas cylinders into 12 kilograms takes 30 minutes.

The Baintelkam of the National Police Headquarters confiscated a number of evidences, such as a Daihatsu Grand Max car, number AD 9554 A, a Mitsubishi diesel truck 120 PS, number AD 8076 BE, 400 3 kg LPG cylinders and 210 12 kg LPG cylinders, as well as 20 hot water hoses and their regulators.

The case has now been transferred to the Karanganyar Police.