Land broker gets 2 years for deception

Land broker gets 2 years for deception

Theresia Sufa
The Jakarta Post/Jakarta

The Cibinong district court declared on Tuesday land broker
Djejen Teteng, 55, guilty of deception and sentenced him to
two years in prison.

The verdict was a year shorter than requested by state
prosecutors.

Djejen was known as a top land broker in Cisarua district,
Bogor regency, West Java. However, he was involved in selling
disputed land.

He was brought to court after former business partner Satria
Djunaedi reported him for selling land without his consent.

At the trial presided over by Judge Marsudin Nainggolan,
Djejen was found guilty of selling 1,500 square meters of land
located on Jl. Taman Safari in Cisarua district.

When Satria asked for an explanation, Djejen offered him some
land -- a 3,500-square meter plot -- as a substitute, located in
Citeko village, also in Cisarua.

But after Satria checked the status of that plot with the
National Land Agency (BPN) Bogor office, he learned that it did
not belong to Djejen.

Later Djejen promised to give Satria a 20-hectare plot of land
in Tugu Utara village, also in Cisarua, but asked Satria to pay
an additional Rp 3 billion to Djejen.

In trying to convince Satria, Djejen stressed that former
national police chief Rusmanhadi and former military commander
Gen. Wiranto also had land in Tugu Utara village.

Satria agreed to take the land after officials of Tugu Utara
village and BPN Bogor office confirmed that the land indeed
belonged to Djejen.

Satria also agreed to pay installments of an additional Rp 3
billion from 2000 to 2001. The agreement was made in Satria's
office at Bank Bumi Daya Plaza, on Jl. Imam Bonjol, Central
Jakarta, with the first installment being Rp 1 billion.

He, however, learned that the land belonged to the Army's
Special Forces (Kopassus), prompting him to report Djejen to
police.