The Case Of Investment In Billions Of Bodong Houses, The Boss Of PT Developer Properti Indoland Arrested By The East Java Police

Release of bogus house investment case at the East Java Police Headquarters/PHOTO: AM Sby-VOI

SURABAYA - The case of fraudulent investment has occurred again in East Java. Recently, the East Java Police team arrested the President Director of PT Developer Properti Indoland (PT DPI) with the initials MA, 46, a fraudulent housing investment perpetrator with victim losses reaching Rp 5.6 billion.

"This Supreme Court suspect has deceived dozens of people and caused Rp 5.6 billion in victim losses," said Head of Public Relations of the East Java Police Kombes Dirmanto at the East Java Police Headquarters, Surabaya, Monday, August 22.

Meanwhile, the Director of General Criminal Investigation (Dirreskrimum) of the East Java Police, Kombes Totok Suharyanto, explained that the MA suspect is a resident of Perum Pondok Jati, Sidoarjo Regency, who lives at Perum Summerset Surabaya.

The Supreme Court suspect has deceived many victims under the guise of investing in housing construction and selling houses in the Grand Emerald Housing Malang.

The modus operandi is that the Supreme Court suspects market housing even though the land object has not yet become his and is still owned by someone else. After the users believe, continued Totok, then payments (in full or in installments) range from Rp. 123 million to Rp. 150 million.

"The suspect used the payment money from the users for the down payment of land objects to land owners or farmers and used it for personal interests," he said.

In 2017 the suspect offered the victims an investment in housing construction and the sale of houses in the Grand Emerald Malang Housing, Gondowangi Village, Wagir District, Malang Regency.

The suspect promised the victims that they would hand over the housing unit according to the promised maturity. The victims were interested in the offer and had handed over the money.

"But until the deadline from 2017 to 2021, what was promised was not realized from the suspect. Even after the victims sent a summons, the suspect did not receive a positive response. Then the victims felt aggrieved and reported it to the police," he said.

Ditreskrimum Polda East Java received 11 police reports from 41 victims with a total loss of Rp 5.6 billion. The suspect is reported on suspicion of fraud or embezzlement as referred to in Article 378 of the Criminal Code or Article 372 of the Criminal Code.

"Evidence that was secured by brochures as a means of marketing crime, documentation of the confiscation process (installation of a signpost), a plot of land covering an area of 6.7 hectares in Gondowangi Village, Wagir District, Malang Regency," he said.

In addition, Rp100 million in cash, a Mercedes Benz car number 1606 VG, a motorcycle, a bundle of BCA savings books and an account were also confiscated.

"The suspect will be charged with Article 378 of the Criminal Code and Article 372 of the Criminal Code with a maximum penalty of four years in prison," he said.