Bank Burglars Amounting to IDR 1.4 billion In Denpasar Sued 7 Years in Prison

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DENPASAR - I Gede Adnya Susila, the IDR 1.4 billion burglars of the BPR Lestari bank Benoa Denpasar branch was sentenced to seven years in prison by the prosecutor in a trial at the Denpasar District Court, Bali.

"Sentenced the defendant I Gede Adnya Susila in prison for seven years, reduced while the defendant was in temporary detention and a fine of Rp. 2 billion, provided that if not paid, it was replaced with imprisonment for six months", said Public Prosecutor, M Anugrah Agung Saputra Faizal, during a hearing at the Denpasar District Court, quoted by Antara, Thursday, July 1.

The prosecutor said the defendant, in this case, was charged with two articles. The first is Article 32 paragraph (2) in conjunction with Article 48 paragraph (2) of the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 19 of 2016 concerning Amendments to the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 11 of 2008 concerning Information in the first indictment.

Second, Article 3 of the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Prevention and Eradication of the Crime of Money Laundering in the second indictment.

The prosecutor explained that in this case, the defendant's position since April 9, 2018, has been working at BPR Lestari Benoa Branch, Denpasar as management training, then since April 4, 2019, assigned as Credit Marketing for BPR Lestari Benoa Branch, Denpasar.

Meanwhile, the victim named I Made Darmawan is a customer at the BPR Lestari Office who has joined since December 8, 2016.

The incident began around June 18, 2020, when I Made Darmawan's wife was contacted by the defendant and told him to meet. Then, on June 19, 2020, at around 13.00 WITA, the defendant came to I Made Darmawan's stall and informed him that there was a banking service product that had to be activated, namely the Lestari Mobile application.

The defendant himself downloaded the application using I Made Darmawan's cellphone and asked him to enter his email address.

After activating the application, the defendant then returned the victim's cellphone. However, the victim did not know whether the mobile banking was active or not, because at that time no transaction was attempted.

At the same time, the defendant also downloaded the Lestari Mobile application. Then, carry out the activation process on the victim's cellphone and the defendant's own cellphone simultaneously by filling in customer data in the form of account numbers, cellphone numbers, and customer email addresses.

"After going through the activation process, the defendant stated that the application was active. However, in reality, the active application was not owned by the victim but on the defendant's cellphone", said the prosecutor.

The total transfer transactions carried out by the defendant from June to November 2020 were IDR 1,455,150,000.