Police Arrest 2 Suspects Of International Syndicate Of Vehicle Smugglers To South Africa, 32 Motorcycles Confiscated

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The Cianjur Resort Police, West Java, uncovered an international network of motorcycle smuggling into South Africa by arresting two suspected members of the syndicate, namely DF (36) and ZM (32) who are residents of Cianjur, with evidence of around 32 motorcycles.

Cianjur Police Chief AKBP Rohman Yonki Dilatha in Cianjur Monday, said the two perpetrators had been in action since the last two years by embezzling

dozens of motorcycles through credit methods in a number of leasing in Cianjur.

"So far, the perpetrator has received a motorcycle credit using the identity of another person who does not have a bad record in banking. The suspect paid a down payment and several months of installments, then the new vehicle was accommodated in a warehouse in Sumedang Regency before being taken to a shelter in Tangerang, Banten and then embezzled to South Africa," he said.

Dozens of motorcycles collected will be sent abroad by sea, so that they can trick the officers, where the suspect has been carrying out his actions since the last two years with profits of up to billions of rupiah.

"The suspect made a profit of up to tens of millions of rupiah from one unit of a credit motorbike whose installments were only paid for three months, sold to Africa for around Rp45 million per unit," he said.

South Africa became the target market for the suspects because automatic motorcycles were not circulating in the country, so the price was higher than in Indonesia.

To dismantle the international network syndicate, his party is still developing because it is suspected that there are other perpetrators who are still in action in a number of areas in West Java, including Cianjur. The two suspected organized networks were arrested on Saturday (20/7) without a fight.

"The suspect was charged with Article 55 of the Criminal Code and Article 263 of the Criminal Code concerning forgery and Article 378 of the Criminal Code and Article 372 of the Criminal Code concerning Fraud and Embezzlement and Article 35 and or 36 of Law number 42 of 1999 concerning Fidusia's guarantee with a threat of 7 years in prison," he said.

Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of the Cianjur Police, AKP Tono Listianto, explained that the disclosure of the actions of the two suspects began with a raid conducted by the Cianjur Police against a pickup truck carrying several motorbikes.

When stopped and the driver was asked to show the completeness of the documents from the vehicle he was carrying, but the driver could not show the ownership documents, so his party conducted an investigation and found the names of the two DF and ZM residents of Cianjur as members of an international syndicate.

"The suspect's statement will be sent abroad, so officers carry out developments by securing 32 units of automatic motorcycles to be sent to South Africa by sea," he said.