Jakarta – Sub Directorate (Subdit) 2 of Property and Land Building (Harda) Directorate General of Criminal Investigation of the Jakarta Metropolitan Police revealed a property fraud using a fake notary who caused losses of up to Rp 214 billion. The syndicate is targeting homes with prices above Rp. 15 billion.
“This scam is packaged neatly, the targeted house is usually above Rp 15 billion, so (the victim) asks to be sold, but instead is abused by the perpetrators,” said Metro Jaya Police Public Relations Head Commissioner Argo Yuwono during a press conference in Tebet Timur, South Jakarta, Monday, August 5, 2019.
In this fraud case, the police arrested four suspects with the initials D, A, K, and H. They, Argo said, had their respective roles, such as searching for victims, pretending to be notaries, faking land certificates, and contracting houses. And make a fake notary signpost.
Argo explained that the disclosure of this case started from the community’s report to the police. In the report, the victims received a bill from the bank regarding the payment of their land certificate collateral. While they feel they have never collateralized the certificate.
Responding to the report, Subdit 2 Harda Polda Metro Jaya formed a team to trace the alleged fraud. From the results of the investigation, it was revealed that the victim had lent his certificate to a fake notary named Idham. The reason the victim gave the document was for matters of buying and selling houses.
“So the offender borrowed the victim’s land certificate with a reason to check its authenticity to the National Land Agency (BPN),” Argo said.
The victim believed the perpetrators because the process of borrowing the certificate was carried out at the notary office of Idham located on Jalan Tebet Timur, South Jakarta, even though the notary’s office was fake. Idham is a retired notary in Batam.
After the certificate is submitted, the perpetrator falsifies it and returns it to the victim, while the original certificate is mortgaged to the bank. Argo said that the land certificates that the perpetrators forged were very similar to the original so the victims were not suspicious.
Later, victims received bills and realized they were victims of fraud. According to Argo, currently, the police have only received three reports from the victims, and there will be six other victims reporting.
From what has been revealed, Argo said the nominal loss of victims due to this fake notary fraud syndicate had reached Rp 214 billion. Police believe the number of victims reporting will increase as the syndicate is exposed. “They have been deceiving people since March, every time they were asked in the Police Investigation Report (BAP) they continue to slip away,” Argo said.
This article has been aired on Tempo.co with the title “Sindikat Penipu Modus Notaris Palsu, Korban Rugi Rp 214 Miliar”,
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Reporter: M Julnis Firmansyah
Editor: Ninis Chairunnisa
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