Woman stockbroker robbed of Rp 500m outside JSX

Woman stockbroker robbed of Rp 500m outside JSX

JAKARTA (JP): A female stock broker was allegedly robbed on
Monday afternoon of Rp 500 million outside the Jakarta Stock
Exchange tower in the busy Sudirman Central Business District in
South Jakarta.

According to a police source, Nina, 38, was waiting for her
driver when two people on a motorcycle approached. They
brandished a gun, shot it into the air, and then snatched her
satchel and rode off.

"It went so smoothly. Nina kept on screaming, but nobody came
to her aid. What the tower's security guards were doing at that
point, I have no idea," said the officer.

"It happened at about 3:30 p.m. She had US$50,000 (Rp 400
million), several million rupiah and cash cheques in that
satchel, all of them amounting to Rp 500 million."

The officer added that Nina was the wife of a doctor at
Pertamina Hospital in South Jakarta.

When contacted, South Jakarta chief of detectives Capt. Rycko
Amelza Daniel said he had not yet been informed of the robbery.

He said the most recent robbery report concerned a Sunday
midday robbery at the state-owned branch office of the Perum
Pegadaian pawnshop on Jl. Wijaya in Kebayoran Baru. In the heist,
the robbers managed to make off with nearly Rp 4 billion worth of
gold and diamonds.

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

Pegadaian's director of operations Dedi Kusdedi said earlier:
"According to a guard, two robbers broke into the office through
the steel gates."

"The sad part is that 99 percent of the things pawned at the
Kebayoran Baru office are jewels, mostly diamonds and gold. This
must have been pre-planned, but I can't say for sure."

Dedi said the security guards who came across the scene
immediately reported the case to the South Jakarta Police
precinct.

Rycko added that police detectives were still investigating
the case. (ylt)