Claiming To Be Able To Double Money, Fake Shamans In Serang Arrested By Police After Tricking 'Patients' Up To Tens Of Millions

Evidence of fraud case of fake shamans who multiply money in Serang/ Photo: Doc. Banten Police

SERANG The man with the initials D (36), a resident of Alang-alang Village, Tirtayasa District, Serang Regency, Banten, was arrested by the Serang Police Satreskrim. D was proven to have committed fraud using the modus operandi of a money multiplier shaman.

Instead of claiming to be a shaman, it turned out that D tricked several victims to reach tens of millions of rupiah.

Serang Police Chief AKBP Wiwin Setiawan said D was arrested on reports of victims of fraud with the mode of multiplying money. D claims to be a shaman (smart person) who can double the money from Rp. 51 million to Rp. 4 billion.

"Perpetrator D pretended to be able to double the money. Because the victim believed the victim then handed over some money via transfer to the perpetrator," said AKBP Wiwin Setiawan, in a written statement, Wednesday, October 11.

Wiwin also explained that when carrying out the action, the perpetrator promised the victim would double the money gradually, from Rp. 12.5 million to Rp. 51 million.

"The total loss suffered by the victim was Rp. 64 million. And the money promised by the perpetrator was not there," he said.

After an investigation, the police arrested D and secured a number of evidences.

The perpetrator was charged with Article 378 Jo 372 of the Criminal Code with a maximum prison sentence of 8 years in prison.