Debt Problems Trigger Cooperative Employees In Palembang Cementcored By Perpetrators

The house belonging to the main perpetrator of the murder of cooperative employees in Palembang, South Sumatra (ANTARA/M IMAM PRAMANA)

Palembang Police Chief, South Sumatra, Kombes Harryo Sugihhartono said the motive for the perpetrator to kill and cast cooperative employees in cement at a clothing store because he was annoyed with debt problems. "After arresting one of the perpetrators of the murder of a cooperative employee, and his body was cast, it was discovered that his motive was because the perpetrator was irritated by debt," said Harryo in Palembang, Antara, Wednesday, June 26. His party is still investigating the case, because the two main actors are still being chased. "We are also still pursuing the alleged main perpetrator in the murder case of a cooperative employee who was previously reported missing and today we have found it in a casting at a clothing store on Jalan KH Dahlan Blok D2 No. 1-2 Maskarebet," he said. Previously, the Palembang Police, South Sumatra, found a missing person in a cement cor at a clothing store on Jalan KH Dahlan Blok D2 No. 1-2 Maskarebet. He said the discovery was revealed after the police arrested a perpetrator who had been chased and arrested in Batam City on Tuesday, June 25, 2024. "From the suspect's confession, it was from this point of view that the victim was buried in a casting in a clothing store," he said. He said the victim was a cooperative employee who was reported missing while saying goodbye from home to collect debtors on June 8, 2024. Because they never returned home, the family made a police report after waiting 1×24 hours.

Currently, the victim has been taken to Bhayangkara Hospital in Palembang for an autopsy by the Palembang Police Satreskrim identification team together with the Forensic team at Bhayangkara M Hasan Hospital, Palembang, are still evacuating the bodies.