GRESIK - Gresik Resort Police (Polres) officers, Polda East Java dismantled a syndicate of illegal or unlicensed bleach injection practices in a two-story building, Jalan Pasar Sit Sampean, local area. The perpetrator admitted that his actions were carried out because he was in debt on an online loan (pinjol).

Gresik Police Chief AKBP Mochamad Nur Azis, in Gresik, Saturday, said in this effort, the Gresik Police arrested the perpetrator named Miftakhul Makhin (34), a single teenager from Sit Sampean Village, Sitting Sampean District. An investigation was also carried out by the Sat Sampean Police Criminal Investigation Unit led by the Aipda Criminal Investigation Unit Hari Wartono. "We arrested the perpetrator on Thursday, September 30, 2021 at the practice site, and when the police raided him, the perpetrator was found serving customers by injecting vitamin C and collagen," said Nur Azis, told reporters. In attracting customers, the perpetrator's modus operandi is to offer white injection services through WhatsApp chain messages, thereby attracting young women to housewives who want to be white.

"In front of investigators, the perpetrator admitted to learning self-taught injections from YouTube. Then shopping for drugs and medical equipment via online," he said. The perpetrator, said the Police Chief, was forced to open an illegal practice (injecting bleach) since April 2021, because he was entangled in online loan debt. (pinjol), and his main income from haircuts is not able to meet his lifestyle needs. "I am in debt, sir." Makhin said when interviewed by the media. The perpetrators were also caught using pharmaceutical products that did not have a distribution permit. In practice, the perpetrators worked alone and offered 5 white injection packages, including the premium package priced at Rp. 750 thousand, silver package at Rp. 1 million, platinum package at Rp. 1.5 million, and a gold package of Rp. 2.5 million, as well as a diamond at a price of Rp. 3.5 million. Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 36 of 2009 concerning Health or Article 78 of Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 29 of 2004 concerning Medical Practice. the impression as if the person concerned is a doctor who already has a doctor's registration certificate, is an act of violation "For the threat of punishment, a maximum of 10 years in prison," he said again. Nur Azis appealed to the public not to be easily tempted by the practice of injecting white bleach without having an official permit, because it is feared to threaten health.


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