Samarinda Prosecutor's Office Receives Delegation Of Rp2 Billion In Drug Money Laundering Cases

SAMARINDA - The Samarinda District Attorney (Kejari) received the transfer of suspects and evidence for the crime of money laundering (TPPU) worth Rp2 billion from investigators from the local Provincial National Narcotics Agency (BNNP) with the suspect with the initials F.

"F is suspected of committing a TPPU allegation with a narcotics predicate crime, as referred to in Article 3 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Prevention and Eradication of Money Laundering," said Head of the Samarinda Kejari Firmansyah Subhan as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, October 18.

The suspect is a narcotics convict with a prison sentence of 10 years, as decided by the Samarinda District Court Number: 752/Pid.sus/2016/PN.Smr dated November 23, 2016.

While serving a prison sentence at the Class II Detention Center of Sempaja Samarinda, the suspect was still able to carry out the circulation of methamphetamine, ecstasy/inex by retailing methamphetamine in detention centers from 2020 to 2023.

Furthermore, the money from the sale of the narcotics was sent by the suspect to a bank account in the name of the suspect and an account in the name of another person.

"The money from the sale of narcotics was then used by the suspect to buy moving goods or items such as land and motorized vehicles, the aim was to disguise the origin of the money," he said.

The evidence that has been confiscated and handed over by East Kalimantan BNNP investigators to the Public Prosecutor in stage two is cash worth IDR 1 billion, there is also cash IDR 1.07 billion.

Then two ATM cards, one account book, one unit of black Jupiter MX two-wheeled vehicle, STNK, BPKB, one unit of white Galaxy J2 cellphone, one unit of HP A37 rose gold, two plots of land and buildings that are still under construction on Jalan M Said Samarinda.

"The Public Prosecutor of the Samarinda Kejari who received the delegation of suspects and evidence (phase two) of the TPPU from the East Kalimantan BNNP today is Sabar Prosecutor Evryanto Batubara," said Erfandy.