Investigators Raiding BNI With 27 Questions

The process of returning Maria Pauline Lumowa by Kemenkumham (Photo: Humas Kemenkumham)

JAKARTA - Bareskrim Polri investigators have examined the suspect in the Rp1.7 trillion BNI break-in, Maria Pauline Lumowa. In this examination, investigators asked a number of questions related to the crimes committed.

Head of Public Relations Division of the National Police, Inspector General Argo Yuwono, said investigators were investigating the company used to apply for a Letter of Credit (L / C) to Bank BNI. In addition, investigators also asked Maria Pauline Lumowa to explain the documents used to carry out the action.

"The second is related to several companies that are debtors from BNI, which have submitted applications for LC credit, we ask and there are also several letters and documents or a statement letter that MPL has made, we ask again," said Argo at the Senayan Shoot Field, Jakarta. , Wednesday, July 22.

Then, investigators also examined Maria's relationship with a dozen witnesses who had previously been defendants in the case. He said, Maria was hit with 27 questions.

"We asked the MPL suspect his relationship with the witness, because the witness we examined was the defendant from this case because there were several suspects in this case and then yesterday we conducted several examinations about 14 we checked for this MPL suspect witness," said Argo. .

Meanwhile, Maria Pauline Lumowa is a fugitive from the Indonesian government. This is because he is a suspect in the cash burglary case at the Bank BNI Kebayoran Baru branch using a fictitious Letter of Credit (L / C) mode.

In the period from October 2002 to July 2003, Bank BNI suffered a loss of 136 million US dollars and 56 million euros or the equivalent of Rp 1.7 trillion based on the current exchange rate. This amount of money is a loan from PT Gramarindo Group owned by Maria Pauline Lumowa and Adrian Waworuntu.

BNI Bank began to feel suspicion. Because, the borrowing process which should be quite difficult because of the large nominal it runs very easily. It is suspected that PT Gramarindo Group was assisted by unscrupulous employees of Bank BNI because the loan application still agreed with L / C guarantees from Dubai Bank Kenya Ltd., Rosbank Switzerland, Middle East Bank Kenya Ltd., and The Wall Street Banking Corp.

Moreover, some of the banks that became the guarantor were not correspondence banks of Bank BNI. This suspicion grew stronger in June 2003. BNI investigated the financial transactions of PT Gramarindo Group. As a result, the company never made exports or was not in accordance with what was reported during the loan process.

Until finally, BNI reported the alleged fictitious L / C to the National Police Headquarters. However, Maria Pauline Lumowa left Indonesia by going to Singapore in September 2003 or a month before being named a suspect.

From the results of the investigation, it was found that the woman had often been in the Netherlands in 2009 and often went back and forth to Singapore. In fact, it is known that Maria has been a Dutch citizen since 1979. Thus, the Indonesian government tried to apply for extradition to the Dutch government twice, to be precise in 2010 and 2014.

However, the Dutch Government rejected the request. Instead, it provides an option for Maria Pauline Lumowa to be tried in the Netherlands. Until finally, the woman was arrested on July 16, 2019, according to an Interpol red notice published in 2004.

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