Operating August 2022, The Perpetrators Of The Selling Of Thousands Of Fake Materai Who Were Arrested By The Bengkulu Police Had Already Sold 3,450 Sheets

Suspect S when he was about to be questioned by the Bengkulu Police. ANTARA

BENGKULU - Unit two of the Sub-Directorate of Certain Crimes (Tipidter) of the Directorate of Special Criminal Investigation (Ditreskrimsus) of the Bengkulu Police arrested S (25), a resident of Karawang, West Java, for having traded fake stamps. "It is true that we have arrested suspect S at his residence in the West Ring area, Bengkulu City because he has traded fake stamps," said Head of Sub-Directorate for Tipidter AKBP Florentus Situngkir in Bengkulu City, Antara, Monday, October 31. During the examination, the suspect admitted that he had sold fake stamps since early August 2022 at a price of Rp. 9 thousand per sheet. The fake Materai, he said, was found by the suspect by buying from someone online at a price of Rp. 5,000 per sheet. From the suspect's confession, he had sold approximately 3,450 sheets of fake stamps, and the perpetrators sold the fake stamps around the Bengkulu area targeting individuals. "There are approximately 3 thousand more fake stamps that have been circulated and sold by the suspect," he said. Florentus continued, his party confiscated 355 sheets of fake stamps and while state losses reached Rp. 38 million. He emphasized that currently his party is still searching for other suspects suspected of being the providers of fake stamps. For his actions, the suspect was charged with Article 25 letter a of Law No. 10 of 2020 concerning Customs Materai and/or Article 257 of the Criminal Code with a maximum threat of seven years in prison.