Cases Of 189 Congregants Failed To Leave For Makkah, Owners Of The Umrah Bureau In Kudus Immediately Sat On The Chair Of Prisoners

Illustration. Prospective Umrah pilgrims are waiting for certainty to leave for the Holy Land of Mecca at Soetta Airport, Tangerang, Thursday 27 February 2020. (Between-M Iqbal)

JATENG - The Kudus District Attorney (Kejari) is targeting the transfer of the fraud case file of 189 prospective Umrah pilgrims failed to go to Makkah to the Kudus District Court (PN) this week.

"Our target is that this week we will delegate the file to the Kudus District Court, so that it can be tried immediately," said Head of the General Crimes Section (Kasipidum) of the Kudus Kejari Tegar Mawang Dhita in Kudus, Monday, May 6, confiscated by Antara.

In this case, he continued, his party has also prepared 15 witnesses, so it is possible that the trial will take up to two months.

The delegation of files for the alleged fraud case was received from the Kudus Police on April 26, 2024.

He revealed that in this case, the suspect was suspected of fraud and embezzlement.

Meanwhile, the article on money laundering, he said, was not suspected, so no asset tracing was carried out.

However, the Kudus Police investigator team has confiscated evidence of economic value which can later be used as a substitute for money from the victims. Among them, there are motorized vehicles, cars, and cash worth Rp160 million.

"All of that is waiting for the results of the trial facts," he said.

In this case, the owner of the Umrah bureau Goldy Mixalmina, Zyuhal Laila Nova, was named a suspect in the case of the failure of 189 people to go Umrah to the Holy Land of Makkah with a loss value of Rp4.92 billion.

The disclosure of the case began with the suspicion of prospective Umrah who had paid off the payment for the change in the original departure schedule scheduled for February 18, 2024, which turned out to be postponed until there was no certainty when it departed.

Then the victim reported the incident to the police, which was followed up with an examination of the suspect's employees and family. Then the suspect was arrested on February 26, 2024.