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