2 Youths In Jambi Arrested By Police Learn To Make Fake Money Through YouTube

Bungo Police Chief AKBP Singgih Hermawan when exposing the case of counterfeit money that the perpetrators managed to catch. (ANTARA/Ho/Humas Polres Bungo)

JAMBI - Members of the Bungo Police Satreskrim arrested two youths who were desperate to make counterfeit money and were circulated or exchanged to agents who could serve banking transactions for customers in several sub-districts in Bungo Regency, Jambi. "We managed to arrest the two perpetrators after receiving information that counterfeit bills of Rp. 100,000 from several money transaction agents were circulated and finally arrested by the perpetrators with the initials AS (23) and RW (34)," said Bungo Police Chief AKBP Singgih Hermawan, Antara, Thursday, January 18. From the results of the examination, the two perpetrators learned to make counterfeit money from social media. The US circulated counterfeit money to agents by sending some money through agents to other accounts and counterfeit money tucked in with real money and then deposited it with agents. After reports were reported to the police, finally the second action was thwarted by members of the Bungo Police Satreskrim. The results of the temporary examination of the two young men's mode of printing counterfeit money and placing them in counters that have agents like Brilink. The arrest began with reports from the public who felt cheated when withdrawing money from the Dana application at one of the counters. The victim named Rizki Rahman Kurniawan reported this incident to the nearest police station. "The two suspects were arrested in the Kuamang Kuning area, Pelepat Ilir District, Bungo Regency and from the two suspects, members managed to secure counterfeit money of Rp. 8.9 million rupiah," said AKBP Singgih. The confession of the suspect AS, who claimed to have learned to print counterfeit money from social media, especially YouTube and used color printers to print it. They distribute counterfeit money to the public through a network of customer transaction agents. So far, the police are still investigating whether there are other victims in this case.

The two suspects were charged with Article 36 paragraph 1,2,3 of the Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 7 of 2011, and Article 55 paragraph 1, with a maximum penalty of 10 years and a fine of Rp. 10 billion.