North Maluku Police Dismantled The Land Mafia Case For Forgery Of Deeds, 4 People Including Former BPN Employees Became Suspects

The release of the land mafia case of the North Maluku Police in Ternate (Photo: Via ANTARA)

TERNATE - The Directorate of General Criminal Investigation of the North Maluku Police revealed a case of land mafia in Central Halmahera Regency with the modus operandi through falsification of authentic deed documents. A total of four people have been named as suspects. One of them is a former employee of the National Land Agency (BPN). The Head of Public Relations of the North Maluku Police, Kombes Michael Irwan Thamsil, said that the four people named as suspects in the land mafia case were WL alias Togo, who were former employees of the Central Halmahera National Land Agency (BPN), YI alias Yermia as the Head of Nusliko Village, and two other people UB alias Umar and DI alias Dani. The alleged case of forgery of land certificates occurred in the period August 2018 to February 2019. The modus operandi, continued Michael, is to include false information in an authentic deed until the emergence of new property rights certificates in the land sector that have been attached with valid ownership evidence in the form of SHM Number 03 of 1969 on behalf of Hadijah Assagaf and SHM Number 04 of 1969 on behalf of Fariz Assagaf through the 2018 complete Systematic Land Registration national strategic program (PTSL) for the land parcel located in Nusliko Village. "As a result of the actions of the perpetrators, the victim Idrus Assagaf suffered a loss of loss of control rights and material rights," Michael said during the release of the case in Ternate, Antara, Thursday, September 22. According to Michael, the four suspects are suspected of selling land per plot at a price of Rp. 15 million to Rp. 20 million, a total area of 32 hectares and divided into 271 certificates. The suspects were charged with Article 264 paragraph (1) 1 sub-Article 263 in conjunction with Article 55 paragraphs (1) and (2) KHUP with a maximum penalty of eight years in prison. "The threat is a maximum of eight years in prison. The case has been declared complete (P-21) by the public prosecutor of the North Maluku High Prosecutor's Office and will be handed over by the suspect and evidence (phase two) on Thursday to the public prosecutor," he said.