Police: Safe Found in Cipete Café Measures 2x1 Metres

Police have revealed that a safe discovered on the second floor of the de’Clan Signature café in Cipete, South Jakarta, measures approximately 2x1 metres. The safe was found hidden behind a wardrobe on the café’s second floor and contained documents and cash in various currencies, including Indonesian rupiah, US dollars, and Singapore dollars. “It turns out the safe, when opened, has an area of approximately 2x1 metres. This means it is the size of a room, used for storing the aforementioned documents and money,” said Polda Metro Jaya Head of Public Relations, Senior Commissioner Budi Hermanto, to reporters at the location on Wednesday evening. Police have seized approximately Rp67.2 billion from the café, with details including SGD 3,000,000, USD 889,965, and Rp259,159,000. The second floor of the café has now been sealed by investigators for the purposes of the investigation. “The second floor is an office, and we have placed it under status quo as part of the investigation into alleged corruption,” Budi stated. Meanwhile, during a search at the Koin Money Changer, police seized 71 items of evidence and 16 foreign currencies totalling Rp7.2 billion. This location has also been sealed by authorities. The head of the National Police’s Corruption Eradication Task Force, Inspector General Totok Suharyanto, previously stated that the searches were related to the handling of three cases. He said the cases were being handled jointly with Polda Metro Jaya through a joint investigation mechanism. “The handling of corruption and money laundering cases in the legal process for the PLN BB case, then the Asabri case from 2020 to 2025, and the alleged corruption case in the debt settlement process of PT CBS to PT KNI from 2020-2025,” he said. Polda Metro Jaya’s Director of Special Criminal Investigation, Senior Commissioner Victor Dean Macbon, conveyed that the case handling originated from two police reports received. The first report relates to alleged criminal acts of corruption and/or money laundering in the legal handling process by state officials or state administrators in the PT Asabri (Persero) and/or Asuransi Jiwasraya case occurring between 2020 and 2025. The second report concerns alleged criminal acts of corruption and/or money laundering in the process of settling the debt or obligations of PT CBS to PT KNI by civil servants or state administrators occurring between 2020 and 2025. “The steps we took today involved efforts to fulfil evidence requirements at approximately eight locations where we conducted searches,” he said.