Bali police call on Australian foreigners to admit IDR100m transfer to Divhubinter Polri members, but unrelated to Interpol fugitive extortion

Posted On: June 15, 2023

DENPASAR, KOMPAS.com Police revealed that AD, a male foreign citizen (foreigner) from Australia, admitted to transferring 100 million Rupiahs to members of Divhubinter’s interdivisional headquarters at National Police Headquarters.

AD is a foreigner who was exposed in an alleged extortion case against a Canadian fugitive from Interpol SG (50).

However, according to AD’s confession, the money was related to accounts payable and was unrelated to the case reported by SG.

Meanwhile, SG is an Interpol fugitive who was arrested by police at a villa in Canggu, North Kuta, Badung, Bali area. SG has now been deported to Australia to be handed over to Canadian police.

Bali Police Director of General Criminal Investigation (Dirreskrimum), Kombes Pol Surawan, explained that the admission emerged when AD was being investigated as a person denounced in the case of extortion against SG.

This investigation is linked to a report by SG who believed himself to be the victim of extortion of up to 1 billion rupees by a case brokerage syndicate.

“(Transfer) 100 million rupees but acknowledgment is for borrowing and borrowing. So AD is transferring to Divhubinter members before he gets money from SG, if confession of AD is in BAP (inspection minutes) borrow and borrow,” he said when contacted. on Wednesday (14/6/2023).

“The transfer took place before this incident, yes, so before he received money from SG. We are still investigating. According to the timeline, AD was in contact with Divhubinter before receiving money from SG,” he continued.

Surawan said that according to AD’s statement, SG transferred 750 million rupees to his company’s legal advisers to pay for legal services.

Meanwhile, the remaining Rp 250 million was received by AD from SG to manage his case so that he would not be arrested by the police after being placed on the Interpol red list.

The police have yet to prove that there was an element of extortion in the transaction between SG and AD. Moreover, between the two have a relationship of friendship and business partners.

“There was no element of extortion yet. He said (AD) to take care of the red notice (SG) but the money was still in David’s account (AD)”, a- he said.

Surawan said investigators still do not know for sure when AD was introduced to Polri Divhubinter members.

Additionally, investigators also struggled to reconcile the confessions of the two as SG’s custodial sentence expired, so he had to be deported to Australia for surrender in Canada.

“Last week we also wanted a tough showdown because the victim (SG) had already left for Canada, we only had time to look at SG, it was only one day, we couldn’t investigate too deeply. We had difficulties there,” he said. said.

Surawan added that investigators plan to re-examine AD, including his family and SG employees, to investigate this alleged extortion case.

“Later we’ll check it out completely and then we’ll hold it back. We’ll explore it through family, business and all kinds of things,” he said.

Previously, it was reported that SG was arrested at a villa in Canggu Village, Badung Regency, Bali last Friday (19/5/2022).

The arrest was based on a red warning letter from Canadian police. He was allegedly involved in a case of fraud and tampering with pension insurance for approximately 355 Canadian citizens with a loss of US$5,000.

Later, SG through his lawyer Dalimunthe and Tampubolon Lawyers admitted that Rp. 1 billion was extorted by unscrupulous brokers.

Based on this statement, two members of the Divhubinter Police Prefecture and a civilian were questioned by the Professional and Security Division of the National Police (Div Propam).

Then SG’s lawyers also reported an Australian foreigner, with the initials AD, to Bali police for involvement in the extortion case.

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