NTB Police Set 2 Suspects In Subsidized Fuel Filling Cases To Fish Ships In Tellong Elong

Dirpolairud Polda NTB Kombes Kobul Syahrin Ritonga. (ANTARA/Dhimas B.P.)

MATARAM - NTB Police investigators have named two suspects in the tanker case suspected of filling subsidized diesel fuel into fishing vessels in the waters of Telong Elong, East Lombok Regency. Dirpolairud Polda NTB Kombes Kobul Syahrin Ritonga confirmed the determination of the two suspects in the case. "Yes, there are already two suspects," said Kobul in Mataram, Antara, Monday, September 26. The identities of the two suspects in this case were not mentioned by Kobul. However, it is confirmed that Kobul is one of the ship's captains. His party has made arrests. All evidence of the case, such as tankers carrying subsidized diesel fuel and fishing boats belonging to East Lombok fishermen, are still being confiscated by the police at Labuhan Haji Pier. The determination of the two suspects follows an official statement from the Head of Public Relations of the NTB Police, Kombes Artanto, who stated that this case had entered the investigation stage. Therefore, the two suspects in this case lead to alleged criminal violations of falsification of transport documents compared to the terms of the transportation business license regulated in Law No. 22/2001 on Oil and Gas. "If the falsification of the document relates to Article 263 of the Criminal Code. Meanwhile, the Oil and Gas Law is in Article 53 letter b," said Artanto. Artanto also assured that the handling of this case rose to the investigation stage based on the findings of evidence from the results of the transportation document examination. "So, the evidence that we have secured in this case is sufficient as our basis for increasing the status of the case to the investigation stage," he said. There were three ships that were secured by investigators at Labuhan Haji Pier. It was MT (Motor Tanker) Harima who was suspected of filling into fishing vessels, KM Satu Raya, and MT Anggun Selatan, which also came from Palembang with the company that owns PT. Tripatra Nusantara. For fuel evidence as well. From MT Harima and KM Satu Raya, the police confiscated 227 thousand liters of subsidized diesel diesel, and also from South Anggun MT with a fuel subsidized load of 135 thousand liters.