Cosmetics shipment thieves arrested

JAKARTA: City police officers said they had arrested six people last week in Pekayon subdistrict, Pasar Rebo, East Jakarta, for alleged theft of a full-size shipping container loaded with cosmetics, which was about to be exported.

Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Tjiptono said the six suspects, identified as Sarifudin, 38, Ruslan Alvian Elan, 38, Endi Suhean, 37, Tri Rusmanto, 38, Hendra, 33 and Suherman Winata, 48, were now in detention at the city police station.

He said that they were still searching for five others identified as Pendi, Dede, Soleh, Abdul and Ody.

Police managed to arrest the suspects after Kusman Bimantoro, director of PT Vadil Perdana Kusman Bintoro, which owns the merchandise, reported to police that they lost a shipment of cosmetics on May 15.

The company said that they received complaints from importers in Dubai that they never received goods that had been ordered. --JP