Perpetrators Who Oplos Gas Subsidy And Sold To Bogor Residents Get A Profit Of IDR 3-5 Million Per Day

Bogor City Police Chief Kombes Pol Bismo Teguh Prakoso showed evidence of the Elpiji gas cylinder being misused. (ANTARA/Shabrina Zakaria)

BOGOR - Bogor City Police, West Java Police, dismantled the practice of mixing three kilograms of subsidized LPG gas operating in a warehouse in the Margajaya Village, Bogor City. Bogor City Police Chief Kombes Bismo Teguh Prakoso said the police arrested two suspects along with a number of evidences. “ A few moments ago we received information from the public that there was a gas injection. The transfer of three kilograms of subsidy gas to 12 kilograms by the two suspects that we have secured,” Bismo said in Bogor City, Antara, Monday, May 13. He said the two suspects with the initials T and N were tasked with injecting gas liquid from a three kilogram tube into a 12 kilogram tube. Based on the results of the examination, this illegal practice has been going on for about a week. In this case, the police confiscated evidence including 280 three kilograms of gas cylinders, 55 12 kilograms of gas cylinders, syringes, seal and others. “ Benefits per day from this suspect are Rp. 3 million to Rp. 5 million per day. Distributed around the people of Bogor City and Bogor Regency, ” he explained. Bismo revealed that the impact of this gas mixing was the scarcity of subsidized gas which should be the right for small communities. "Because this transfer could be potential, explosions, accidents and fires," said Bismo.

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