Bareskrim Reveals TPPU Worth Rp531 Billion, Starting With The Death Of A Mojokerto Resident

Release of money laundering case from illegal drugs at Police Headquarters (Rizky Adytia/VOI)

JAKARTA - The National Police's Criminal Investigation Body (Bareksrim) has uncovered a criminal case of money laundering originating from illegal drug trafficking. In this case, the amount of money confiscated was Rp. 531 billion by naming a suspect.

"From a search of the accounts in question, there are 9 banks. We can trace that there are Rp531 billion that we can confiscate," said the Indonesian National Police's Criminal Investigation Officer, Komjen Agus Andrianto, to reporters on Thursday, September 16.

The suspect in this case has the initials DP. The disclosure of this case began with the investigation of a Mojokerto resident who died from taking drugs.

Thus, an investigation was carried out and led to the suspect DP. Because, he is a supplier of these illegal drugs

"So an investigation was carried out, to the actors rather than those who illegally imported drugs from outside. Then circulated them," said Agus.

From the results of the examination and investigation, the suspect DP does not have a background in the pharmaceutical world. However, he actually brought the drugs into Indonesia illegally and circulated them for 10 years.

"This DP suspect does not work, he also has no expertise in the pharmaceutical field, he does not have a pharmaceutical company. However, he carries out activities to bring in drugs from abroad without a distribution permit from BPOM," said Agus.

For his actions, DP was charged with Article 196 in conjunction with Article 98 paragraph (2) and paragraph (3) and/or Article 197 in conjunction with Article 106 paragraph (1) of RI Law Number 36 of 2009 concerning Health in conjunction with Article 64 of the Criminal Code and Article 3 and/or Article 4 and/or Article 5 in conjunction with Article 10 of the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Prevention and Eradication of the Crime of Money Laundering.