andriajah Sat Jul 2020 2 years ago

Bank Bni cash worth IDR 1.7 trillion stolen, how did Maria Lumowa escape?

KOMPAS.TV - The hunt for Maria Pauline Lumowa, the fugitive perpetrator of the IDR 1.7 trillion BNI Bank burglary case has finally ended. Maria was arrested in Serbia and will be returned to Indonesia this morning (09/07/2020).

Maria Pauline Lumowa is one of the suspects in the burglary of the Kebayoran Baru branch of BNI bank cash via a fictitious Letter of Credit (L/C).

In the period October 2002 to July 2003, Bank BNI disbursed loans worth 136 million US dollars and 56 million Euros or the equivalent of IDR 1.7 trillion at the current exchange rate to PT Gramarindo Group which was owned by Maria Pauline Lumowa and Adrian Waworuntu.

It is suspected that PT Gramarindo Group's actions received assistance from 'insiders' because BNI continued to approve L/C guarantees from Dubai Bank Kenya Ltd., Rosbank Switzerland, Middle East Bank Kenya Ltd., and The Wall Street Banking Corp which are not BNI Bank correspondence banks. .

In June 2003, BNI, who were suspicious of PT Gramarindo Group's financial transactions, began investigating and discovered that the company had never exported.

This alleged fictitious L/C was then reported to the National Police Headquarters, but Maria Pauline Lumowa had already flown to Singapore in September 2003, a month before being named a suspect.

Now the main step is not only the astuteness of the police to continue the investigation but it is also no less important to restore the state's losses.

Listen to the following dialogue with the Managing Editor of Kompas Daily, Mas Adi Prinantyo, who at that time was following developments in Maria's case since she fled from Indonesia in 2003 and an International Law Expert who also served as Chancellor of Jenderal Achmad Yani University, Prof. Hikmahanto Juwana.
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