Police Confiscate Billions Of Rupiah In Cash Flow From Drug Cases In Banten

The Head of Public Relations of the Banten Police, Kombes Shinto Silitonga (fourth left) shows evidence resulting from the disclosure of drug trafficking cases across provinces and countries. ANTARA/Azmi

TANGERANG - The Banten Regional Police (Polda) confiscated assets and objects worth more than one billion rupiah belonging to BY (54), a suspected cross-provincial and state drug dealer who has been arrested by officers around the Cikampek Toll Road, West Java.

"The total amount of money that was confiscated by investigators in a series of further investigations was Rp. 1,081,806,700. And investigators later managed to confiscate 1 unit of Daihatsu Feroza car No.pol D-1561-DI and 1 unit of Wuling Conferno car No.pol KB-271-XX," said the Head of Public Relations of the Banten Police, Kombes Shinto Silitonga, as quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, July 14.

The suspect, BY, is suspected to be a syndicate or big dealer of interprovincial and state drug dealers whose evidence of 40 kilograms of shabu-shabu has been found.

He explained that the confiscation of the flow of funds from drug crimes was the result of development to the West Kalimantan region to follow up on information about the role of other members in the big syndicate.

"During almost two weeks of work, investigators managed to arrest ASP alias Putra (25), a resident of Kubu Raya, West Kalimantan who works as a construction worker every day but keeps large-scale money in his rented house which investigators found during a search. Then the money was confiscated. cash worth IDR 366,090,000," he also said.

After an examination and investigation was carried out on the suspected ASP, he admitted that he was one of the children of the suspect BY or a big drug dealer.

"So ASP also plays an active role in helping BY alias Grandfather to transfer drugs from one point to another," he said again.

In addition, said Shinto, suspect BY has also saved some money from the crime through his third wife with the initials PWT (42) and her neighbor, YS (25).

"Because the amount of money managed by this drug syndicate is quite large, BY alias Grandfather also used his third wife, PWT and her neighbor, a woman with the initials YS, for money storage transactions in support of drug transactions circulated by this syndicate. Rp598,300,000, and Rp117,416,700," he said.

In an effort to follow up transactions from existing evidence in a more comprehensive manner, Banten Police investigators will cooperate with PPATK in order to assist investigators in tracing the flow of funds with the principle of follow the money and follow the assets.

"This fact of the investigation strengthens the investigator's belief in adding a suspicion of money laundering to the suspects," he also said.

The suspects will be charged in accordance with Article 137 of Law no. 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics which reads that anyone who places, pays, spends, deposits, exchanges, hides, disguises, invests, saves, grants, inherits or transfers money, property and objects or assets resulting from narcotics crimes with a minimum criminal penalty of 5 years and a maximum of 15 years in prison and a fine of at least Rp. 1 billion and a maximum of Rp. 10 billion.

"Vulnerable family members are recruited and involved in drug trafficking, this is an important input for us together to be anticipated with massive education," said Shinto.