Bank employee arrested for stealing from customers’ accounts

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Fri, 03/25/2011

A private bank official was apprehended for stealing money from customers accounts. The suspect reportedly stole Rp 17 billion (US$1.95 million).

“The suspect is an official at the bank; a woman aged 47 with the initials M.D.,” a spokesperson for the National Police, Insp. Gen. Anton Bachrul Alam, told reporters on Friday.

Anton said the suspect conducted her crimes by manipulating customer’s account data and transferred some of their funds to her account.

She is charged for violating article 49 (paragraph 1) and 2 of Law no 10, 1998 onbanking and article 6 of Law no 8 year 2010 on money laundering. (rpt)