BATAM - The Riau Islands Police dismantled the land mafia by arresting 19 suspects related to the forgery of land certificates covering an area of 48 hectares in Bintan involving village officials and RT and RW administrators.
"The Land Mafia Task Force for the Riau Islands Province has succeeded in uncovering the alleged crime of falsifying land certificates covering an area of 48 hectares," said Head of Public Relations of the Riau Islands Regional Police Kombes Harry Goldenhardt in Batam, Riau Islands, Antara, Wednesday, May 25.
This disclosure follows up on six police reports with the time of the incident from 2013 to 2018 in Bintan Buyu Village, Bintan, Riau Islands.
"We have secured 19 suspects with their respective roles, such as the initiator of making fake letters with the initials AK, SD, and MA, then those who made sporadic land registrations and Certificates of Operation of Control over Land (SKPPT) initials KN, KM, MA, SP. , RR, and IH," said Harry.
Then there are those who act as users of fake letters with the initials MN, RM, JM, AD, MR, MN, IR, RS, IK, and HE who help in typing and printing sporadic land registration letters and SKPPT as well as surveyors.
"There are actors who act as the initiator of making sporadic letters together with village officials using other people's names," he said.
They make a profit by selling sporadic land to companies in Bintan. The perpetrators took a profit of approximately Rp. 500,000,000.
Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of the Bintan Police, Iptu Ardiyaniki, added that the three initiators planned and collaborated with village officials, such as former village heads, RT and RW administrators.
“This person is in charge of issuing sporadic letters and SKPPT using the names of nine residents to then be sold to a company. The total loss from the company is IDR 1.5 billion," said Ardiyaniki.
The evidence that was successfully secured was one map of a plot of 21 hectares of land, one photocopy of a map of points on a plot of 48 hectares of land, one typewriter, 25 statements of physical possession of land parcels or sporadic, 32 SKPPT letters, one grand letter written in Arabic. Malay, a statement letter from the Bekapur group, evidence of the sale and purchase agreement of 25 sporadic letters and 32 SKPPT, as well as sales and purchase receipts.
The perpetrators are charged with Article 263 paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Criminal Code with a threat of 6 years in prison, then Article 55 paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code, Article 385 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code is punishable by a maximum imprisonment of 4 years, and in conjunction with Article 65 of the Criminal Code.
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