JAKARTA - The Riau Islands Regional Police have revealed a trafficking network in persons who are employed as crew members of international ships.
"From the disclosure results, there are seven suspects that we have secured and arrested in several areas on the island of Java. Two of them were handled by the Polda Metro and Polda Central Java," said Dirkrimum Polda Kepri, Kombes Pol Arie Dharmanto. July 25th.
The disclosure of the trafficking case is a development of the case of the death of a crew member on the ship, Lu Huang Yuan Yu, some time ago.
"The four suspects we brought to Kepri were directly related to the death of ABK, the late Hasan, a resident of Lampung. From this disclosure, all of the suspects were involved from the beginning of the process until their departure," he said.
Of the seven suspects, one of them was a foreign national, who committed violence against victim Hasan Apriadi until he died.
Meanwhile, the other six people are directors, commissioners and sponsors of companies that recruit crew members to be assigned to ships, namely H Director of PT GMI, TA, commissioner of PT MJM, TS director of PT MJM, LK director of NAM, SBW from PT MTB, MH from PT MTB.
These companies carry out the recruitment, from the start to the departure to Singapore, not through the correct procedure.
"The recruitment process for all crew members on the ships of Lu Huang Yuan Yu 117 and 118 was not properly processed. There were conditions that were falsified," he said.
During the investigation, the police officers found several companies in a closed condition, and only relied on recommendations from the Ministry of Manpower to dispatch ABK.
He explained that every crew member who is dispatched should have a marine fishery certification. But in reality, of the 22 crew members who were arrested, none of them pocketed evidence of this expertise.
"Naturally, until the sea can do nothing," he said.
And that's what finally the crew members then scolded by the officers on the ship. Together with the suspect, the police detained evidence including 66 passport books, contract agreements, sea work contracts, and one computer CPU.
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