Pawnshop lost Rp 8b in Sunday's robbery

Pawnshop lost Rp 8b in Sunday's robbery

JAKARTA (JP): State-owned Perum Pegadaian pawnshop announced
on Friday that the total loss of Sunday's robbery at its branch
office on Jl. Wijaya in South Jakarta totaled Rp 8 billion and
not the earlier estimate of Rp 4 billion.

The company's director of operations, Dedi Kusdedi, said that
the final figure was based on the pawnshop's 20-member audit
team, who calculated the value of stolen jewelry, comprising
mostly gold and diamonds, pawned by over 3,000 customers.

But he promised all customers would lose nothing from the
robbery, which took place on Sunday afternoon.

"The customers will get a cash refund beginning Monday at
Pegadaian's main office on Jl. Kramat Raya in Central Jakarta,"
Dedi told The Jakarta Post.

South Jakarta Police have tentatively named the security guard
of the pawnshop as the main suspect in the heist.

South Jakarta Police chief of detectives Capt. Rycko Amelza
Daniel said the suspect, Dadi Mulyadi, had vacated his house
along with his wife and kids, and their whereabouts were unknown.

"We questioned his elder brother, Makmur, who we believed lent
Dadi his motorcycle for the robbery," Rycko told the Post on
Friday.

But Makmur insisted that he had not met Dadi for the past two
weeks, the officer said.

Rycko and the detectives believed Dadi not only used Makmur's
bike to commit the crime, but also returned it to Makmur later.

"That motorcycle is now with Makmur. We're still looking into
the case," he added.

Rycko said police officers had focused their investigation on
the interrogation of the two security officers of the pawnshop
branch office.

Dedi said that 99 percent of the things pawned at the
Kebayoran Baru office were mostly diamond and gold jailer.

"This must have been preplanned, but I can't say for sure,"
Rycko said, adding that police were still tracking Dadi and his
family.

Dedi Kusdedi said that a security guard of the branch office
had informed him that the robbery was committed by at least two
men who broke into the office through the steel gates of the
pawnshop.

Dedi, however, did not name the guard from the branch office.

Police, on the other hand, suspected from the beginning that
the security guard played a major role in the pawnshop heist.

The robbery at the pawnshop is believed to be the first one of
this year. (ylt)