Police Arrest 50 Rental Car Embezzlement Plots

Head of Public Relations of Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Yusri Yunus (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Subdit Ranmor Team of the Directorate of Public Criminal Investigation of The Metro Jaya Police Arrested the embezzlement plot of 50 rental cars.

"The perpetrator that we secured four people, the main actor is a woman, there are several modes," said Head of Public Relations of Metro Jaya Police Kombes Yusri Yunus, Monday, May 24.

The four suspects arrested by police have the initials T, MZI, NRU, and sister NS (24) as the brains of the plot.

Yusri explained that one of the modes is to rent a car to be sold at a low price but only hand over the car and stnk with the promise of BPKB following.

Another mode is to sell cars that are still in credit status to one of the car loan financing institutions or "leasing".

According to NS's confession, he has been in the criminal act since October 2020. Police themselves said about 50 cars were blacked out by the syndicate.

"After being inside approximately 50 vehicles that he committed embezzlement and fraud, mode with rental and capacity eg cars whose credit has not been completed he sold through NS," he added.

Out of the 50 cars, Polda Metro Jaya has only managed to secure 30 cars. 20 of them are still being searched by police.

The cars were sold through social media at low prices to attract buyers.

The cars are sold from Rp35 million to Rp80 million which is well below the market price.

Police also urged the owners of car rentals whose vehicles were blacked out by the plot to come to The Metro Jaya Police Station and pick up the vehicle.

As a result of his actions the perpetrators have now been detained and designated as suspects on the basis of Article 372 of the Criminal Code on embezzlement.