International Network Motorcycle Embezzlement, Mode Of Borrowing KTP Lured By Millions Of Rupiah

Release Of Bareskrim Polri/PHOTO: Rizky Adytia-VOI

The Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police revealed an international network of fiduciary crimes or embezzlement by naming seven suspects. This network uses a mode of borrowing someone's identity in exchange for millions of rupiah.

"The modus operandi used is that the collectors order motorized vehicles to intermediaries, then the intermediary seeks a debtor to credit motorbikes at dealers throughout Java by using the identity of the debtor in exchange for Rp. 1.5 million to Rp. 2 million," said the Director of General Crimes at Bareskrim Polri Brigadier General Djuhandhani Rahardjo Puro to reporters, Thursday, July 18.

After the process of applying for credit and handing over the vehicle is complete, the suspect will take the motorcycle from the debtor.

Motorcycles are then collected in storage warehouses. The mode continues until the specified target is achieved.

"After the vehicle was received by the debtor, the vehicle was immediately transferred from the debtor to the intermediary and then given to the collector to be accommodated in several warehouses belonging to the collector," he said.

Usually, when the vehicles in the warehouse have reached 100, they will be immediately packaged and sent abroad.

From the deepening, there are five countries that are the destination for embezzlement, namely Vietnam, Russia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Nigeria.

"After the vehicle amounted to around 100 units, then the collector coordinated with the exporter for stuffing (the process of loading goods into containers) then exports were carried out abroad," he said.

This network is estimated to have been in action for three years. This is because a large amount of evidence was found for documents for sending motorbikes abroad.

"There are 20 thousand delivery transactions for motorcycles that are vulnerable from February 2021 to January 2024," said Djuhandhani.

Meanwhile, the five suspects are NT and ATH as debtors, WRJ and HS as collectors, FI as collector seekers, HM as debtor seekers, and WS as exporters.

They were charged with Article 35 or Article 36 of Law number 42 of 1999 concerning fiduciary guarantees, and/or Article 378 and/or Article 372 of the Criminal Code, and/or Article 480 of the Criminal Code and/or Article 481 of the Criminal Code with a maximum penalty of 7 years in prison.