Semarang Regional Government Bank Burglarized, Employee Claims To Know Defendant Open Account Using Customer Name Dies

Former head of the local government-owned bank branch in Semarang City, Asep Sofyan, was examined as a witness in the trial of the burglary of the government bank / DOK ANTARA

SEMARANG - A local government-owned bank in Semarang City, Central Java, which was burglarized by its own employees with a fictitious credit application mode on behalf of a customer who has died. This was revealed in the trial of the burglary of a local government bank with state losses reaching Rp7.7 billion during the examination of Ayu Satriani, the head of the bank's service unit as a witness at the Semarang Corruption Court, Monday, March 25. The witness admitted that he had opened an account and made an ATM for a customer who turned out to be dead. The account book and ATM, he continued, were handed over to the defendant. "There is no warning to the system that the customer has died," he said in a trial chaired by Chief Judge Gatot Sarwadi as quoted by Antara. In addition, the witness also admitted that he had made an ATM card for a customer named Radiyan even though it was not the customer who submitted the application. The ATM card was also handed over to the defendant after being a participant with his PIN number. Later, according to him, the account in the name of Radiyan was known as a holding account for Semarang District Court employees who applied for a loan to this government bank. Ayu admitted that she had just learned of several fictitious loans at the bank where she worked after reports from the insurance authorities about several names of customers who had died. Meanwhile, the former head of the bank branch, Asep Sofyan, admitted that he was not aware of the names of customers whose loans turned out to be fictitious. "I don't know if there are new customers because there are no submission applications," said Asep. He also admitted that there were customers who had actually paid off their loans. However, up to 2 years after the deadline, his obligations ended, his credit was relaxed by this government bank. Previously, the Semarang Corruption Court tried the head of the marketing unit of a government bank in Semarang City, Anggoro Bagus Pamuji, for corruption that cost the state up to IDR 7.7 billion.

The defendant's mode of crime was by embezzling loan insurance claims and disbursing credit from debtors who had died from 2019 to 2021.