Actress Sekar Arum Gets Counterfeit Money From Bayu Setio Aribowo, A Garuda Employee, A State-Owned Enterprise Employee Who Has Been Arrested

Sekar Artist Arum Widara was involved in the use of counterfeit money obtained from Bayu Setio Aribowo, Garuda Employee, BUMN Company/ Photo: IST

The police revealed that the counterfeit money (upal) circulated by Sekar artist Arum Widara (41) turned out to be from the perpetrator Bayu Setio Aribowo, an employee of Garuda, a state-owned company, who was first arrested and secured at the Tanah Abang Metro Police.

Bayu Setio Aribowo is an employee of PT Garuda Indonesia (Persero) Tbk, part of a counterfeit money syndicate produced in Bogor, West Java, and controls the circulation of counterfeit money in Jakarta.

The aftermath of Bayu Setio Aribowo's arrest was not in vain. The coordination between regions of the police, in the aftermath of the arrest of Sekar Arum Widara, a colossal drama artist, who is known to shop using counterfeit money.

The South Jakarta Metro Police also confirmed that Sekar received counterfeit money from the Garuda employee of a state-owned company, Bayu Setio Aribowo.

"That's right, the initials B (Bayu Setio Aribowo), and the initials B have been secured at the Tanah Abang Metro Police," said Head of Public Relations of the South Jakarta Metro Police, Kompol Nurma Dewi to reporters, Thursday, April 17.

Nurma said that her party would continue to look for the networks involved in the circulation of counterfeit money.

He also said that his party was continuing to search for possible areas for the distribution of counterfeit money used by the perpetrators.

"We have to find which networks spread, of course, and who printed the allegedly fake money," said Nurma.