Burglar Of ATM Machine Gasak Rp498 Million In Malang Arrested, The Culprit Is The Maintenance Officer Who Holds The Key

Release of ATM burglary case at Malang City Police Headquarters/Police Doc

MALANG - Malang City Police officers arrested a gang of ATM burglars in the Greater Malang area. It turned out that the culprit was the filling and maintenance vendor for the ATM itself.

The perpetrator with the initials AP or Ian alias Toyib (33) is a resident of Pagak, Malang Regency. In the action, AP acted together with AF (29), a resident of Wagir, Malang Regency. Both are known to have acted 15 times and stole more than IDR 498 million.

Malang City Police Chief AKBP Budi Hermanto explained that the actions of the two perpetrators had been carried out since February 2021. This action was easy to do because Toyib had the original key to open his target ATM.

"So, IDR 30 million was taken, then IDR 40 million to collect more than IDR 498 million. That's it, after filling in the money, other perpetrators received instructions to take the money through a cassette safe and then moved it to another slot", said AKBP Budi Hermanto, Friday, September 17.

This incident was only discovered on Thursday, August 26, when the perpetrator was caught on CCTV in action at an ATM outlet on Sudanco Supriadi Street, Sukun District, Malang City. The perpetrators stole IDR 100 million in cash.

Shortly after, the police managed to arrest AF at his home on August 31. From the results of the development, 1 other perpetrator was arrested, namely AP aka Toyib who was the mastermind of the crime.

“This last one perpetrator had escaped and had to be rewarded with hot lead. We managed to secure him in Mojokerto", he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Criminal Investigation Unit for Malang City Police, Kompol Tinton Yudho Riambodo, said that the two perpetrators took action after 10 years as employees at the money-charging vendor. A total of 18 ATMs were broken into.

“The two perpetrators acted very neatly because they had worked there for 10 years. Finally, they acted at the ATM on Sudanco Supriyadi Steet", he said.

In this case, the police confiscated the remaining IDR 36 million, 3 cassettes of ATM cash safes, the work uniforms of the 2 perpetrators, and the motorbike used for the action. The two perpetrators were charged with Article 363 of the Criminal Code in conjunction with Article 65 of the Criminal Code.