Garuda Indonesia BUMN Employee Suspect Of One Circle Fake Money With Actress Sekar Arum Widara

Counterfeit Money Evidence/ Photo: Rizky Sulistio/ VOI

The Tanah Abang Metro Police confirmed that one of the suspects in a counterfeit money syndicate named Bayu Setio Aribowo (40) was related to an artist named Sekar Arum Widara (41) who was arrested in South Jakarta.

"There is a suspicion of a connection, because the suspect in the South claimed to have received from one of the suspects in Tanah Abang," said Tanah Abang Metro Police Chief, Kompol Haris Akhmat Basuki to VOI, Wednesday, April 23.

Regarding the wide network of employees of PT Garuda Indonesia, a state-owned company in the case of the circulation of counterfeit money in Jakarta, the Tanah Abang Police Criminal Investigation Unit will again develop the case to other fake money networks.

"We will develop it again later," he said.

However, until now, investigators from the Tanah Abang Metro Police have not yet summoned and investigated the suspect Sekar Arum Widara.

"I have not coordinated or checked the suspects in the South. We will immediately develop this case," he said.

It is known that the involvement of Garuda employees in state-owned companies in the West Java network counterfeit money syndicate case has a large scale.

The suspect named Bayu Setio Aribowo alias BY alias BS (40) turned out to have a major role in syndicates circulating counterfeit money in Jakarta.

Yes, Bayu, a Garuda employee, a state-owned company, acts as a recipient of counterfeit bills of Rp. 100,000 from a suspect named Haji Amir Yadi alias Amir alias AY (70) who lives in Subang Regency, West Java.

From the hands of Haji Amir Yadi, Bayu distributed the counterfeit money in Jakarta based on orders.

Meanwhile, the suspect Haji Amir who was arrested in the Subang area, West Java, acted as an intermediary with the production team or counterfeit money printers with the initials DSR and LBS.

Previously, the South Jakarta Metro Police arrested artist Sekar Arum Widara for the circulation of counterfeit money. As a result of the police investigation, it turned out that the counterfeit money came 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.

"It is true that 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.