Shopping For Fireworks Using Fake Money, This Man Was Almost Beaten By Market Traders

BANYUMAS PS (52), a resident of Pagerlaang Village, Kemranjen District, was almost judged by the masses for allegedly shopping at the market using counterfeit money. Luckily, the East Purwokerto Police Criminal Investigation Unit together with the Banyumas Police Criminal Investigation Unit arrived at the scene and immediately took PS to the police station for immediate inspection.

The disclosure of the case of the circulation of counterfeit money when the police received reports from residents at the Sunmori Spice Market, Satria Purwokerto Sports Hall, in the East Purwokerto area, Banyumas Regency. Residents arrested the perpetrators after being caught shopping with counterfeit money.

"Officers immediately went to the location to secure the perpetrators in order to avoid the mob and take them to the East Purwokerto Police," said Banyumas Police Chief Kombes Pol Edy Suranta Sitepu, through the Head of Criminal Investigation Unit, Kompol Agus Supriadi, Monday, April 10.

Meanwhile, East Purwokerto Police Chief AKBP Sambas Budi explained that the PS perpetrators circulated counterfeit money by buying pants, fireworks, and sale food.

"When secured, officers found 3 counterfeit notes of Rp100,000 and original money worth Rp185,000, from the return of the use of counterfeit money", said the police chief.

From this incident, officers carried out developments by searching the perpetrator's house and managed to confiscate 30 counterfeit notes and 15 counterfeit notes of Rp. 50,000 denominations, bringing the total counterfeit money to 35 hundreds of notes and 15 counterfeit notes of Rp. 50,000.

"We are developing and tracing the perpetrator's house. From there, it was found that there were still counterfeit money of Rp. 3,750,000. The money was still intact and the perpetrators had not used it," said the police chief.

The police chief also explained that to get the counterfeit money, the perpetrator ordered it from someone else online and then the money was sent for distribution.

"According to his confession, counterfeit money was obtained from online. Then the message via the telegram application was then sent via expedition," explained the Sector Police Chief.

For his actions, the perpetrator was charged with Article 36 paragraph (2), (3) RI Law No. 7 of 2011 concerning currency in conjunction with Article 245 of the Criminal Code with a maximum penalty of 15 years.