South Sumatra Prosecutor's Office Arrests Corruption Perpetrators Of Red Plate Bank Customer Funds

The suspect in the corruption case of state-owned bank (AT) customer funds was arrested by the South Sumatra High Prosecutor's Office's Tabur team in Palembang, Wednesday (17/1/2024). ANTARA/M. Imam Pratama

The South Sumatra High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati) has arrested a suspect in a criminal act of corruption in state-owned bank customer funds.

Assistant for Special Crimes (Aspidsus) of the South Sumatra Attorney General's Office Abdullah Noer Denny said the South Sumatra Prosecutor's Office through the team to sow or arrest fugitives managed to secure the suspect on behalf of the initials AT.

AT was previously included in the wanted list (DPO) for approximately one month.

"The arrests were carried out through intense tracking of communication tools and we know the whereabouts of the suspects after being successfully secured and taken to the South Sumatra High Prosecutor's Office," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, January 17.

The South Sumatra Prosecutor's Office has named AT as a suspect in the alleged corruption case worth Rp. 6,483,127,524 funds from a state-owned bank in December 2023.

Head of the South Sumatra Attorney General's Office, Vanny Yulia Eka Sari, explained that the suspect's modus operandi was in the name of customers to open accounts and make ATMs and activate Mobile Banking customers so that the suspect using the du instruments withdrew money from customer savings in the one year period from 2022 to 2023.