SAMPIT, iNews.id – Police arrested a man in Sampit, East Kotawaringin Regency, Central Kalimantan on suspicion of cheating fuel oil (BBM) type Pertalite by changing the color so it looks like premium. The perpetrator, with the initials HS, did this for profit.
“This is quite strange too. Usually, it is the case that the mixing resembles the more expensive type of fuel such as pertalite or pertamax, this is precisely the pertalite mixed so that the color is similar to premium or gasoline. Only the color is similar, we don’t know about the ingredients, so we need laboratory testing,” said East Kotawaringin Police Chief AKBP Abdoel Harris Jakin accompanied by Ketapang Police Chief AKP Samsul Bahri in Sampit, Monday (11/10/2021).
Jakin explained, this case was revealed from public information which was then followed up by the Ketapang Police. Suspected HS was caught red-handed carrying out copying at his home, Jalan Jembatan Kuning Gang Sabar Await, Ketapang Village, Mentawa Baru District, Ketapang.
During the arrest, the police secured evidence in the form of a water reservoir with a capacity of 1,000 liters, 33 jerry cans, scales, bleaching earth powder for bleach, premium-like fuel and others.
In its action, HS received the service of spraying pertalite by adding ‘bleaching earth terram’ powder. From that process, the pertalite that was originally blue -green in color turns yellow to resemble premium.
Sometimes HS also buys pertalite from a number of his colleagues, then blends it into fuel with a similar color to premium and then sells it. However, if you look closely, there are still differences because the yellow color is very sharp, different from premium.
The results of the examination of HS revealed that this forbidden practice was carried out because in remote areas or far from the city center, the premium price was actually more expensive than pertalite. Even though at gas stations the official premium price is cheaper than pertalite.
Editor : Donald Karouw
