Luxury Watch Shop Robbery Case, Police Investigate Alleged Employee Involvement

Dirreskrimum Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Wira Satya Triputra/PHOTO: Rizky Adytia-VOI

JAKARTA - The police are investigating the alleged involvement of the Highwayan behind the robbery of luxury watches in the Pantai Indah Kapuk area or PIK 2, Tangerang Regency.

This allegation arose because when the suspect HK acted, none of the employees tried to fight even though he won the number.

"Regarding the video circulating, which in the video is the suspect alone and there is no resistance from the employees, of course we will do an in-depth investigation, including exploring whether there is an element of employee involvement in it," said Director of General Criminal Investigation of Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Wira Satya Triputra to reporters, Friday, June 14.

The investigation was carried out by examining witnesses at luxury or surrounding watch stores when the robbery took place. So, later it will prove the alleged involvement of employees in the robbery.

"Doing an in-depth investigation of the witnesses around the location, be it security, or whoever is a store employee who is on the left-right side of the shop, there is involvement between them. This is actually an in-depth investigation for us," he said.

The results of the interim investigation and examination, the main suspect with the initials HK dared to act on himself because he had visited the shop twice to 'image' the situation and conditions.

The HK suspect first visited the luxury watch shop on May 18. Then, come again a week later or May 25.

The suspect took into account the situation and condition of the watch shop by pretending to be a customer.

"The suspect's arrival at the shop is to survey the location and come as or pretend to be a customer," he said.

"This is done to find out the location where the luxury watches are displayed at the clock installation and to find out how many employees work at the shop," continued Wira.

After drawing the situation and confirming the plan is ripe, the suspect launched his action on June 8. He took 14 hours of luxury ladders of various brands worth Rp12 billion.

"The suspect carried out a robbery by preparing equipment," said Wira.

In this case, the police not only arrested HK. However, there are three other people, namely MAH, DK, and TFZ who play a role in helping the main perpetrators to sell the stolen watches.