JP\/5\/BANK<\/p>\n
Lampung Police seize part of Rp 2.7b hot money
\nOyos Saroso
\nBandarlampung<\/p>\n
Lampung Police have recovered three cardboard boxes containing
\nmoney believed to have been stolen in an armed robbery in South
\nLampung regency on Monday<\/p>\n
The police also seized a Toyota van believed to have been used
\nby the robbers in the Rp 2.7 billion robbery (US$ 284,210), (not
\nRp 2.5 billion as earlier reported by the police), which is
\nthought to be the biggest robbery in Lampung province.<\/p>\n
Seven armed robbers escaped with the money from six Bank Haga
\nemployees on Jl. Metro-Tegigeneng in South Lampung while they
\nwere transporting it from Metro city to Bandarlampung.<\/p>\n
The seven suspects are still at large.<\/p>\n
Police detectives were still counting the money recovered in
\nthe three boxes on Friday.<\/p>\n
They also detained four people for questioning on Friday as
\nwitnesses, said the Lampung Police chief of detectives Sr. Comr.
\nBachtiar Hasanuddin Tambunan.<\/p>\n
The four people were identified only as Is, 40, the former
\nwife of Jg, a suspect in the case, Da, Ags and Lil.<\/p>\n
\"Besides Is, the other three people are also acquainted with
\nJg,\" said Brig. Gen. Primanto, the chief of the Lampung Police.<\/p>\n
Is was picked up by police from her home in the Panjang
\ndistrict of Bandarlampung on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
When the police raided her house at 9 p.m, Is was preparing to
\ntravel to Java.<\/p>\n
During the raid, police officers seized a small cardboard box
\ncontaining money.<\/p>\n
During questioning, Is told the police that Jg had visited her
\nearlier on Wednesday night, when he gave her the cardboard box
\ncontaining money.<\/p>\n
Separately, another witness, Ags, a motorcycle taxi driver,
\ntold the police that he had been hired by Jg, who was staying in
\na relative's house in South Lampung, to take him to Is' house in
\nBandarlampung on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
After driving Jg to Is' house, Ags was then told by Jg to take
\ntwo other small cardboard boxes to a friend of Jg's in Tarahan,
\nSouth Lampung, some 25 kilometers south of Bandarlampung. During
\nthe trip, Ags was accompanied by the teenage son of Jg.<\/p>\n
After completing this task, Ags returned to Is' house in
\nBandarlampung and collected Jg to take him to Tarahan. On the
\nway, however, Jg told Ags that he had decided to go by taxi
\ninstead.<\/p>\n
\"Jg gave me Rp 100,000, and then I left him. I was surprised
\nthat later on Thursday morning I was picked up by the police,\"
\nsaid Ags.<\/p>\n
Police then traced Jg's movements in Tarahan on Thursday, but
\nfound nothing except Jg's son and the two boxes containing money.<\/p>\n
Based on information from Ags, the motorcycle taxi driver, the
\npolice detained Da, Jg's girlfriend, and Lil, a relative of Jg,
\nseparately in South Lampung regency.<\/p>\n
The police also found a Toyota Kijang van at Pasir Putih beach
\nin Bandarlampung, which they suspect was used in the robbery.<\/p>\n
The police also held Supardi, a security guard at the bank,
\nfor questioning.<\/p>",
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