Latest Update: Fortuner Driver Arrested for Using Fake TNI Plate – CNN Indonesia

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Thursday, 18 April 2024 07:42 IWST

Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —

Polda Metro Jaya has arrested an arrogant Fortuner driver with a fake TNI service plate with the initials PWGA that crashed into a journalist’s car on the Jakarta-Cikampek Toll Road.

It is known that this case started with an argument between PWGA, who was driving a Fortuner car with TNI service plates, and another driver.

In a video circulated on social media, PWGA even admitted to being a member of the TNI. However, he later corrected his statement and admitted that his older brother was a member of the TNI.

After it went viral on social media, the record of TNI service number 84337-00 used by PWGA was registered as another person namely Marsda TNI (Ret.) Asep Adang Supriyadi.

Asep then reported PWGA to Polda Metro Jaya on Sunday (14/4) and it was registered with number LP/B/2005/IV/2024/SPKT/POLDAMETROJAYA.

CNNDonesia.com a summary of the latest facts regarding the issue of countering TNI service plates:

He became a suspect and was immediately detained

Kasubdit Resmob Ditreskrimum Polda Metro Jaya AKBP Titus Yudho Ully said his party had named PWGA as a suspect after he was arrested on Tuesday afternoon (16/7) in Cempaka Putih district, Central Jakarta .

After being named as a suspect, Titus said PWGA was immediately detained at the Polda Metro Jaya Detention Centre.

“He has been identified as a suspect and has been detained,” he said when confirmed via a short message, Wednesday (17/4).

For what he did, Titus said that PWGA was charged with Article 263 of the Criminal Code regarding the failure of documents that could cause loss with a maximum risk of 6 years in prison.

Hide the car at your sister’s house

Titus said that after an argument with another driver went viral on social media, the perpetrator immediately fled to his brother’s house with his wife.

“So from that incident, he (the Fortuner driver) went to his brother’s house with his wife,” he explained.

PWGA also kept the used Toyota Fortuner car covered with tarpaulin. At the same time, the fake TNI service plates used were thrown away.

“The car at home was covered with a tarpaulin covering the car, the plates were thrown away,” he said.

The service plate belongs to an older brother who is a retired TNI officer

Meanwhile, Head of Unit 2, Resmob Deputy Director, Ditreskrimum Polda Metro Jaya, Police Commissioner Anggi Fauzi Hasibuan, said the service plate came from PWGA’s elder brother, a retired TNI officer with the first letters T

“So he is not a member of the TNI. When his brother was still active until he retired, he was given the service number plate. Actually, it was his brother who used it,” he said when contacted, Wednesday (17/4). ).

However, Anggi said, the service plate number 84337-00 used by the PWGA brother had expired in 2018.

After it ended, the record number for retired TNI Marshal TNI (Purn) Asep Adang Supriyadi for operational service vehicles as a professor at the Defense University.

The reason is to avoid unfairness

Based on the results of the investigation, Anggi said that the official plate was used intentionally by the person who committed the crime to avoid the unfair rule that applies to the Eid 2024 homecoming period.

“The suspect’s confession was that his brother gave it to him. He borrowed it, the reason for lending it was, if for example an unequal number or even, he was just using it,” he explained.

“On dates he even used the official number plate but with the condition that he had to get permission from his older brother first,” he said.

Fake TNI service plates thrown away in Lembang

Anggi said that to hide his actions, PWGA threw away the fake TNI service plates that went viral on social media in Lembang district, West Java.

“TNI plates were thrown away in the Lembang area and members are still looking for them around the place in Lembang. Members are heading that way,” he explained.

Anggi, based on the suspect’s confession, said this was done by PWGA after receiving news that a video recording of an argument between him and journalists on the Jakarta-Cikampek toll road went viral on the social media.

After that, the perpetrator, who was on holiday at the hotel, contacted his elder brother with the initials T, who is a retired TNI officer. At the same time, he said, the perpetrator was directed by his elder brother to immediately throw away the fake service plate he was using.

“He admitted that he had made a joke and then someone made it viral and now it has gone viral on social media. Then his brother directed him, you use this ( plate), it happens, right, so, just throw it away, the number plate,” he said.

“On that basis, he threw away the number plate. Now the suspect is called again to show where he threw away the number plate, to be used as evidence, ” he said.

(tfq/from)