Police impostor dupes man of Rp 10 million<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): City police detectives are searching for a man
\nwho claimed to be a city police officer and swindled Rp 10
\nmillion (US$1,000) from an unsuspecting victim who wanted to get
\nhis friends released from police detention.<\/p>\n
City police chief of detectives Sr. Comr. Harry Montolalu
\nidentified the victim only as Baasir, who received a call on his
\ncellular phone on Tuesday morning, and was duped of Rp 10
\nmillion, by a man claiming to be \"Harry Montolalu\".<\/p>\n
\"This is a serious, serious crime. A man had called Baasir on
\nhis cellular phone. The man, claiming to be me, told Baasir that
\nif he wanted to get his friends released from police detention,
\nhe should transfer Rp 10 million to an account in Bank Central
\nAsia (BCA),\" Harry, who seemed angry, told reporters at city
\npolice headquarters.<\/p>\n
Harry said that nine of Baasir's friends, all truck drivers,
\nhad been arrested late last week for alleged theft of several
\ntons of sugar in Pondok Kopi, East Jakarta.<\/p>\n
\"Baasir, unknowingly transferred the money on Tuesday morning
\nto an account in BCA's Bogor branch. The account is under the
\nname of a woman, identified as Fitri Handayani. We have no idea
\nwhether this is a real or fake name.\"<\/p>\n
City police detectives chief of violent crimes (Jatanras)
\nComr. Tagam Sinaga said on Tuesday that the scam suspect had
\nalready withdrawn the cash from BCA's Bogor branch, via an ATM.<\/p>\n
\"We'll arrest the suspect, using film from the video camera at
\nthe ATM, which records the faces of people withdrawing cash. We
\nsuspect that this person could either be an acquaintance of
\nBaasir himself, or a police officer,\" Tagam said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Harry told reporters that he himself learned of this crime
\nbecause the man posing as Harry Montolalu had told Baasir, that
\nafter the money was transferred, Baasir \"should meet him at city
\npolice headquarters.\"<\/p>\n
\"Baasir came here, asking to meet me. I met him, and he asked
\nme to release his friends. I was shocked. He told me he had paid
\nme Rp 10 million and that I must release his friends,\" Harry
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
\"He gave me the cellular phone number 'Harry' gave him. I
\ncalled that number, changed my voice, and asked if I was speaking
\nto Harry. That man said that he was 'Harry', and that he had
\nreceived the money.\"<\/p>\n
Harry said that the police were investigating the case, and
\npromised to arrest the thief very soon.<\/p>\n
\"This has become a sick trend. Earlier, the same thing
\nhappened to city police detectives chief for general crimes, Adj.
\nSr. Comr. Tito Karnavian. Someone used his name, to dupe someone
\nelse,\" Harry said.<\/p>\n
In the same way, a man claiming to be Irian Jaya Police chief,
\nBrig. Gen. Made Mangku Pastika, was arrested in late February,
\nfor allegedly attempting to trick mining company PT Freeport
\nIndonesia out of Rp 100 million.<\/p>\n
The man, identified as Edy Margono, reportedly called a member
\nof Freeport's board of directors Prihadi Santoso at the company's
\nhead office on Jl. Rasuna Said, South Jakarta, and introduced
\nhimself as the Irian Jaya Police chief.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old Edy apparently told Prihadi that he needed Rp
\n100 million and wanted to borrow the money from the company, a
\ncopper and gold producer which is a subsidiary of U.S. firm
\nFreeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc. (ylt)<\/p>",
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