Fraudsters detained for cheating workers

Fraudsters detained for cheating workers

JAKARTA: Jakarta Police named two people, identified as RS and
JS, as suspects for taking billions of rupiah from 1,040 workers,
who were promised work in Japan.

Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. I Ketut Untung Yoga Ana
said that each of the workers paid the two Rp 32 million from
2004 to 2005, but they did not keep their promise to send the
migrant workers overseas.

"We declared them suspects after 10 migrant workers reported
them to us. We are now questioning them intensively here in the
headquarters to find out where they have put the money," he said
without giving the names of those suspects.

Ketut said that the two would be charged under Article 372 and
378 of the Criminal Code on fraud which carries a maximum
punishment of five years in prison. --JP