Semarang. The Central Java Prosecutor’s Workplace has detained DP, an worker of a state-owned financial institution in Purbalingga, on prices of embezzling buyer deposits to make investments in cryptocurrency.
Central Java Prosecutor Ponco Hartanto stated in Semarang on Monday that the state has suffered losses amounting to Rp 11.2 billion ($691,000) due to DP’s actions.
In accordance to Hartanto, the crime, dedicated by the advertising worker of the state-owned financial institution in Purbalingga, occurred between July and September 2023.
The accused is alleged to have provided fictitious deposit applications to clients with a promised cashback of 1 to 2 p.c. DP withdrew the shopper deposits with out the house owners’ data and used the funds to make investments in cryptocurrency.
“The purchasers’ deposit cash was already entered into the financial institution system as deposit accounts,” Hartanto stated.
Nevertheless, Hartanto added, the cryptocurrency buying and selling performed by DP resulted in losses, and the withdrawn funds couldn’t be recovered.
Beneath Legislation No. 31/1999 as amended by Legislation No. 20/2001 on the eradication of corruption, DP could possibly be sentenced to a minimal of 4 years and a most of 20 years in jail.
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