SOME 20 ATM SCAM SUSPECTS NOW BEHIND BARS

Jakarta Forum - Jakarta, Jan 27 - A special detective team set up by the National Police Headquarters has rounded up 20 people suspected of involvement in the recent automatic teller machine (ATM) break-ins in the country.

"The number of suspects already arrested reached 20 today and we are still hunting 10 others," the head of the National Police Headquarters` Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim), Commissioner General Ito Sumardi said here on Wednesday.

Ito said that ATM hacking cases had continued to increase because the suspects had committed the crimes since 2006 based on information obtained by investigators.

Previously, police had identified 13 suspects of whom 10 were already arrested and the remaining three still being pursued. Bank customers` losses by the ATM scams were estimated to total Rp6 billion.

The suspects arrested were known by their initials as F, SA, MS, MI, Ri, Su, Aj, Ir and the suspects on the police`s wanted list as Yu, Sup, Pa and J.

Up to now, police had not yet found any indication that the ATM scams at different places in the country were inter-linked. But police were still following up clues of a possible link between the cases in Bali and those in Jakarta.

"The question is that the scams in Bali were carried out under guidance from Jakarta," " Ito said.

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