Two tried for fiscal payment form forgery

Two tried for fiscal payment form forgery

TANGERANG (JP): Two employees of PT Gapura Angkasa, the sole
provider of ground handling services to PT Garuda Indonesia, were
tried on Tuesday for allegedly forging overseas fiscal payment
forms at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.

Prosecutor Sriyati Sanjaya told the Tangerang District Court
that defendants Rio Andika Siregar, 29, and Linda Marulina binti
Abas, 28, both residents of Gunung Sahari subdistrict in Central
Jakarta, falsified the forms along with an accomplice, Cucu
Nursafaat, who earlier received a five-month jail term, and Adhy
Kusmintarso, who is still at large.

They also counterfeited the stamp of Bank Mandiri's airport
branch the prosecutor said, adding that they issued 100 false
fiscal forms at Rp 600,000 each to passengers traveling overseas
on Dec. 6, 2000.

The official fiscal payment is Rp 1 million.

The forgery was revealed after a passenger canceled his trip
and tried to return the fiscal form at the bank's counter.

Nursafaat was soon arrested, but his three other accomplices
escaped. The two defendants were arrested in July.

Police confiscated items believed to have been purchased by
the defendants using the money obtained through the crime. They
included a Nokia cellular phone that cost Rp 5.6 million, a Rp 3
million wrist watch, 13-gram and 50-gram gold bracelets valued at
Rp 6.1 million, and a Rp 1.5 million TV set.

Separately, airport police chief Insp. Suari Wahyudi confirmed
that two weeks ago police arrested another suspect in the same
case, identified as Roy Marbun, 34.

He was suspected of helping the defendants sell the fake
fiscal forms.

"Roy Marbun confessed to having obtained Rp 100 million
through the forgery and had bought a Kijang van with money to be
used for taxis," she told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday
afternoon.(41)