Prospective Suspect Admits The Practice Of Cheating On Bogor Gas Station Lasts Two Months, Police Find Irregularities

Director of Certain Crimes at Bareskrim Polri, Brigadier General Nunung Syaifuddin. (Ist)

The Directorate of Certain Crimes (Dittipidter) of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police and the Ministry of Trade (Kemendag) uncovered the naughty practices of the management of the Bahar Bakar Bakar Umum Filling Station (SPBU) in the Bogor Regency area. From the confession of the potential suspect, the cheating has been carried out for the past two months.

"That from the results of the initial examination, we suspect that later as a suspect, this activity has only been running for 2 months," said the Director of Certain Crimes at the National Police Criminal Investigation Agency, Brigadier General Nunung Syaifuddin to reporters, Wednesday, March 19.

However, Husni Zainun Harun's confession as the supervisor of the gas station who was also reported in the case was not immediately trusted. Moreover, from the investigation and examination, no connection to the installation of the device was found to reduce the dose.

Thus, it is suspected that the fraudulent practice has been going on since the operation of the gas station located on Jalan Alternative Sentul, Cijujung Village, Sukaraja District, Bogor Regency, this.

"Seeing that the cable was connected by the pump engine in the box earlier, it was impossible for only 2 months, because there were no new bursts for connecting the cable," he said.

"This means that this activity has been prepared from the start, this fraud has indeed been initiated since this gas station was operationalized or established," continued Nunung.

On the other hand, Nunung conveyed that the profit value obtained by the suspect reached IDR 3 billion to IDR 4 billion. This value is obtained every year.

However, investigators are still investigating this matter. Especially since when did they commit fraud which led to the value of community losses.

"We are investigating how many years he has been operating so we know that their profits so far will be implemented in the money laundering offense article," said Nunung.

Meanwhile, in this case the investigator has not named a suspect. However, the reported party is the supervisor of the gas station.

Later, the suspect will be charged with Article 62 paragraph 1 of Law number 8 of 1999 concerning consumer protection with a maximum imprisonment of 5 years and a fine of IDR 2 billion.

Then, Article 27 paragraph 1 article 32 paragraph 1 of Law number 2 of 81 concerning legal mitrology which carries a penalty of one year and a fine of Rp. 1 billion.