Police Expressed Hoarding 420 Solar Liters To Be Sold Into Galian C Lubuk Linggau Mining

Illustration - The evidence of a modified car for transporting fuel was secured by the police in Palembang, South Sumatra (ANTARA/M Riezko Bima Elko P/)

SUMSEL - Lubuk Linggau City Police arrested three suspects who hoard hundreds of liters of subsidized diesel fuel (BBM) in the local city.

Lubuk Linggau City Police Chief AKBP Harissandi said the three suspects were Herwansyah (41) a resident of Muara Kelingi Village, Musi Rawas, Marsudi alias Didin (45) a resident of Eka Marga Village, Lubuk Linggau Selatan II and Hendri (43) a resident of Kupang Village, Lubuk Linggau Selatan I.

The three suspects were arrested separately by the Special Task Force for Ops Gakkum Misuse of BBM Lubuk Linggau City Police in response to complaints from the local community, on Monday, September 12, at around 09.30 WIB.

"Two were arrested in Taba Angin Village (suspects H and M), and H (43) in Kupang Village, including evidence of total subsidized fuel from them reaching hundreds of liters," he said confirmed in Lubuk Linggau, South Sumatra (Sumsel), quoted by Antara, Wednesday, September 14.

According to him, from the hands of the perpetrators, Herwansyah, two units of filled tanks with a capacity of 90 liters of diesel were transported by a Mitsubishi Canter BG-8562-H truck.

Then, his party also confiscated two tank units with a capacity of 90 liters of diesel from the Marsudi perpetrators who were transported using a red horse minibus BG-1668-HN, and from Hendri one unit of the gray Isuzu Panther car BH-1765-CL complete with a modified tank containing 60 liters of diesel.

"Yes, the perpetrator and all the evidence we confiscated at the Police Headquarters were asked for further information by investigators," he told investigators that the subsidized diesel fuel had been sucked in from a number of local and surrounding city gas stations.

"There are also some of the diesel fuel being sold to excavation C mining outside Lubuk Linggau City, which we are still investigating," he added.

For this act, the perpetrators are suspected of violating Article 55 of Law (UU) number 21 of 2001 concerning Oil and Gas Earth as amended in Article 40 number 9 of Law Number 11 of 2020 concerning Job Creation. The penalty is a maximum imprisonment of 6 years and a fine of Rp. 60 billion.