Former BNI Aek Nabara Employee Arrested for Embezzling Customer Funds Turns Out to Own...
MEDAN, Waspada.co.id – The Directorate of Special Criminal Investigation (Dit Reskrimsus) of North Sumatra Police has arrested a former Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) employee at Aek Nabara for embezzling church parishioners’ funds amounting to Rp28 billion.
Based on investigations on Tuesday (21/4), it was revealed that the suspect Andi Hakim (AH) owns a company in the investment sector named CKC Corp Management.
Not only that, the former BNI Aek Nabara employee, who had fled to Australia, also owns several businesses such as PT Chiara Keanu Chareem, a cafe, a billiards hall, a padel court, and a mini zoo.
In response to the suspect AH’s businesses suspected to stem from the embezzlement of customer funds, North Sumatra Police have submitted a request to the court for asset seizure.
The Head of Public Relations of North Sumatra Police, Commissioner Pol Ferry Walintukan, explained that one of the suspect’s assets that has been secured is a house, along with several other assets suspected to be related to the criminal act.
However, the police spokesperson emphasised that the status of these assets is still at the securing stage and has not yet entered the official seizure phase, as it awaits a court decision.
“The asset seizure process must go through strict legal mechanisms. We must ensure a direct connection between the assets and the criminal act committed. Investigators have sent an asset seizure letter to the court,” he clarified on Monday (20/4).
Previously, the Dit Reskrimsus team of North Sumatra Police had secured Andi Hakim Febriansyah, the suspect in the embezzlement of funds from the Catholic Church Parish of Aek Nabara.
The former Head of BNI Aek Nabara was designated as a Most Wanted List (DPO) and an Interpol Red Notice had been requested.
“It is true, the individual has been secured and is still undergoing examination,” said the Head of Public Relations of North Sumatra Police, Commissioner Ferry Walintukan, on Monday (30/3).
Meanwhile, the Director of Reskrimsus of North Sumatra Police, Commissioner Pol Rahmat Budi Handoko, revealed the modus operandi used by suspect Andi Hakim (AH) by offering a BNI Deposit Investment product to the Aek Nabara Parish Church since 2019 with an interest rate of 8 percent.
“Because of the promise of quite high interest, the Aek Nabara Parish Church accepted the deposit offer and handed over the money in stages,” he briefly explained that the BNI Deposit Investment product turned out to be fictitious.
“The case of the fictitious BNI Deposit Investment product was reported to North Sumatra Police by the BNI Rantau Prapat management on 26 February 2026 because they never created such a product,” clarified Rahmat, stating that due to the embezzlement case, the Aek Nabara Parish Church suffered losses of Rp28 billion.
Furthermore, the 1998 Akpol alumnus explained that based on the case review conducted by investigators from the Directorate of Reskrimsus of North Sumatra Police on 13 March 2026, AH was designated as a suspect.
“Based on the examination, the suspect had embezzled the deposit funds for personal interests together with his wife,” he said, adding that after being designated as a suspect, AH had already fled to Australia.
Rahmat added that before the suspect designation, AH had already submitted a resignation or early retirement as the head of the BNI Aek Nabara Branch Cash Office.