Police Open-Not About The Existence Of Ferdy Pratama: Hiding In Thai Forests

Director of Narcotics Crime at Bareskrim Polri Brigadier General Mukti Juharsa, Wednesday (7/2/2024). (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The National Police are starting to open up about the whereabouts of Fredy Pratama. From the results of the mapping, the drug boss is in the Thai forest.

"I assure you that he (Fredy Pratama) is still Thailand. But in the forest," said the Director of Narcotics Crime at the National Police, Brigadier General Mukti Juharsa, to reporters, Wednesday, March 13.

However, no more details were conveyed regarding the whereabouts of Fredy Pratama. It was only conveyed that the National Police would coordinate with the Thai police in the near future.

"Yes, we will maximize it, we will try to do action later. Maybe I will have a relationship (or) visit there or return to Thailand. We will have another join with the Thai police, how it will be," he said.

While waiting for the right time to take these legal steps, the National Police will also wait for the judicial results against Fredy Pratama's father.

This aims to confiscate all assets from the drug dealer who is abroad.

"Waiting for a decision from the inkrah of Fredy Pratama's father. So that he can confiscate all of his assets in the Thai area," said Mukti.

In hunting for Fredy Pratama, the National Police held the Escobar operation. From September 2023 to February 2024, as many as 54 suspected drug networks Freddy Pratama, one of which was Bayu Firmandi who was arrested in 2023 and charged with money laundering offenses.

In addition, Polri investigators have confiscated most of Fredy Pratama's network assets in Indonesia with a value of IDR 400 billion.

"That's the value of the assets that we confiscated, his assets (Fredy) probably reached T (trillions) times. We don't know the amount yet, there are still many assets in Thailand. In Indonesia we will keep tracking them," said Mukti.