Former Bima Narcotics Police Chief Transported to National Police HQ for Examination Related to Money Laundering
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Former Narcotics Unit Chief of Bima City Police Resort, Malaungi, has been transported from the NTB Provincial Police Headquarters to the National Police Criminal Investigation Agency building in Jakarta for examination by investigators from the Directorate of Criminal Narcotics Offences (Dittipidnarkoba) regarding money laundering offences (TPPU) in a narcotics case.
“We are from the NTB Provincial Police. We are bringing him based on the request from the Head of the Narcotics Criminal Directorate at the National Police Criminal Investigation Agency,” said Deputy Head of Subdirectorate 3 of the NTB Provincial Police Narcotics Directorate, Commissioner Bowo Tri Handoko, at the National Police Criminal Investigation Agency building in Jakarta on Thursday.
In addition to Malaungi, he said that the Dittipidnarkoba at the National Police Criminal Investigation Agency also transported Ais Setiawati, the former wife of drug lord Erwin Iskandar alias Koko Erwin, for examination related to TPPU.
Furthermore, he stated that investigators will also examine former Bima City Police Chief Didik Putra Kuncoro.
“Later, possibly the former Bima City Police Chief as well, Mr Didik, whom we will process,” he said.
It is known that all three have been designated as suspects in suspected TPPU with the predicate offence of narcotics abuse.
Didik Putra Kuncoro himself was previously designated as a suspect in a suspected drug trafficking case in Bima City, NTB. He is alleged to have received “security money” amounting to Rp1 billion from suspect Koko Erwin, the drug lord.
Meanwhile, Malaungi, who was Didik’s subordinate at the Bima City Police Resort, received money from suspect Abdul Hamid alias Boy amounting to Rp1.8 billion as a form of “attention money”. Subsequently, Malaungi gave the money to Didik.
Previously, the Dittipidnarkoba at the National Police Criminal Investigation Agency also designated three suspects for money laundering offences (TPPU) related to proceeds from the illicit drug trade carried out by Koko Erwin, namely VVP, Koko Erwin’s wife, and two of Koko Erwin’s children with initials HSI and CA.