Police Arrest Gang Of Thieves Baut Rail Kereta Cepat Jakarta-Bandung

The Karawang Police arrested six thieves of high-speed train bolts in the Karawang area, West Java, Tuesday (6/6/2023). ANTARA/Ali Khumaini.

The Karawang Regency Police have uncovered a gang of cases of alleged theft of bolts and copper cables for the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed rail project in the Parungmulya Village area, Ciampel District, Karawang, West Java.

"There were six perpetrators arrested in the case of the theft of the national strategic project of PT Kereta Cepat Indonesia China," said Deputy Chief of Karawang Police, Kompol Prasetyo Purbo Nurcahyo, when exposing the disclosure of a crime case reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, June 6.

The six perpetrators of the theft, including the initials KM (27) a resident of Taman Mekar Village, Pangkalan District, Karawang who is a project security officer. Then the other perpetrators had the initials SF (23), DW (46), EN (38), MW (46) and AA (38).

The perpetrators were arrested on Thursday (1/6) after conspiring to steal bolts and copper cables from the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed rail project around Parungmulya Village, Ciampel District, Karawang.

The Deputy Chief of Police said that the case was revealed when officers patrolled the location, and found the copper overhead cable and bolts installed for the high-speed train at that location had disappeared.

After receiving the report, the police immediately conducted an investigation and asked for information from a number of parties, as well as trying to detect the characteristics of the perpetrators who committed the theft at the location of the high-speed rail project.

Prasetyo said that at first his party arrested four perpetrators of theft at the location of the fast train project in the Ciampel District area.

Furthermore, the results of the investigation developed, and the police immediately hunted down and arrested two other perpetrators in the Telukjambe Timur District.

"Now the six perpetrators are being held at the Karawang Police Headquarters," he said.

The police confiscated a number of evidences from the arrest, including two hacksaws, an ordinary saw, four vests, one sack of copper cable, one four-wheeled vehicle and one key to a large pipe (freezing bolts).

Meanwhile, the theft of bolts and copper cables for the high-speed rail project occurred during a power outage on the high-speed rail line.

The perpetrator, who is the project security officer, leaked information about the blackout, to launch the perpetrators of the action.

For their actions, he said, the perpetrators were threatened with Article 363 of the Criminal Code with a threat of seven years in prison, as well as Article 480 of the Criminal Code with a threat of four years in prison.