2 Police Personnel Suspected Of Being Involved In The Sale And Purchase Of Senpi With The Papuan KKB Serving As Intermediaries

Karo Penmas Brigadier General Rusdi Hartono (DOK. Public Relations Polri)

JAKARTA - The National Police Headquarters (Mabes) emphasized that two police officers involved in buying and selling firearms (Ssenpi) to the Papua Armed Criminal Group (KKB) act as intermediaries.

Karo Penmas, Public Relations Division, Brigadier General Rusdi Hartono, said that the roles of the two were identified based on the results of the interim examination. It's just that, until now the examination is still ongoing to explore various things.

"As an intermediary or in the process of buying and selling ammunition and weapons itself. His role will be even deeper after the investigation is complete," Rusdi told reporters, Tuesday, February 23.

Apart from the roles of the two police officers, Rusdi said that his party was investigating the involvement of other elements. In fact, the Police's Professional and Security Division (Propam) also intervened.

"So the Papua Regional Police and the Maluku Regional Police are still investigating and the Police Headquarters propam team has gone down to the Maluku Regional Police to study it too," he said.

"We are not yet able to conclude the extent to which the alleged sales of weapons and ammunition to the KKB are still being explored," he continued.

Previously it was reported that two police officers suspected of selling firearms to the armed criminal group (KKB) were based on the development of an investigation. They were arrested starting with the arrest of a Bintuni resident with the initials WT in mid-February.

"Previously, the Bintuni Police in mid-February had arrested one of the Bintuni residents who was caught carrying 1 revolver and one homemade rifle," said Head of the National Police Public Relations Division Penum, Kombes Ahmad Ramadhan.

From that arrest, it was then developed. As a result, WT claimed to have received the weapons in the Ambon area, Maluku. The Bintuni Police and the West Papua Police who handled the case transferred the case to the Ambon Police and the Maluku Regional Police.

After that the police arrested 6 people who were suspected of being involved. Two of them are members of the National Police.

"The results of the investigation were secured by 6 people who were suspected of being involved with where the weapons came from. And 4 people were secured from civilians and two from Ambon Police who were suspected of being involved in the possession or origin of the weapons," he explained.