Polda Metro Collaborates with BI to Examine Counterfeit Cash Price IDR 22 Billion – 2024-06-22 23:45:34

The display screen shows the Financial institution Indonesia (BI) brand (ANTARA FOTO/Hafidz Mubarak A)

POLDA Metro Jaya additionally collaborated with Financial institution Indonesia to examine samples of counterfeit cash price IDR 22 billion. Investigators have despatched samples of 1,000 sheets to examine their authenticity.

“Polda Metro Jaya has despatched some samples of cash whose authenticity is uncertain, particularly 1,000 items to Financial institution Indonesia and later they are going to step by step be submitted to Financial institution Indonesia and counted. Then they are going to be examined,” stated Director of the BI Cash Administration Division Agus Susanto Pratomo at Polda Metro Jaya, Friday (21/6).

From the outcomes of the analysis, it was discovered that the cash despatched was pretend. Agus stated that the counterfeit cash was a 2016 version of IDR 100 thousand price of banknotes.

“The outcomes of analysis performed by Financial institution Indonesia present that each one samples submitted by Polda Metro Jaya weren’t actual cash,” he stated.

“Intimately, we’ve got conveyed the outcomes of laboratory examinations associated to the 2016 version of the 100,000 yr denomination to the Regional Police. Particulars of which safety components are lacking and so forth,” he added.

Agus appealed to the general public to be extra cautious in checking the authenticity of cash. Checking might be executed utilizing primary 3D strategies, particularly wanting, touching and looking out.

Then, continued Agus, individuals may also examine with easy instruments, particularly UV or a magnifying glass.

“Financial institution Indonesia all the time points and circulates rupiah forex with safety components that can’t be imitated however are simple for the general public to deal with as a type of defending rupiah forex from counterfeiting makes an attempt,” he concluded. (Fik/Z-7)