The Riau Regional Police confiscated Rp3 billion in cash from a drug dealer with the initials AA who is a prisoner at a correctional facility in the local province.
The Director of the Riau Police Narcotics Research Directorate, Senior Commissioner Putu Yudha Prawira, stated that the investigation was not only focused on arresting the perpetrators and confiscating the crystal methamphetamine, but also tracing the assets resulting from the crime.
"This effort is being made as a step to impoverish drug dealers so that they no longer have the ability to operate their networks," Yudha said in Pekanbaru, Tuesday.
The disclosure of this case began with the arrest of two couriers, RF (31) and HR (30), in Pekanbaru City, on November 9 2025. From their hands, officers confiscated evidence of narcotics in the form of crystal methamphetamine in the amount of 27 large packages with a total weight of 27 kilograms.
The two couriers admitted to carrying out their operation three times on the orders of an inmate at a Riau prison identified as AA. They were paid Rp 8 million per kilogram of crystal methamphetamine to pick up and deliver the narcotics to a storage warehouse in Pekanbaru.
After arresting and interrogating the couriers, the police team then conducted further investigation and successfully apprehended AA in prison. AA admitted his role as the primary controller of the illicit business, even while behind bars.
Therefore, investigators applied the Money Laundering (TPPU) law against suspect AA. Police immediately blocked several accounts used by AA, who was found to have used accounts in other people's names to conduct transactions and disguise the flow of the proceeds of crime.
"As a result of the asset search, the police managed to confiscate Rp. 3 billion in cash, one car, seven mobile phones, three ATM cards, mobile banking access, and other evidence," he explained.
For his actions, suspect AA alias B was charged not only under the Narcotics Law but also under Article 3 in conjunction with Article 4 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Prevention and Eradication of Money Laundering. He faces up to 20 years in prison and a maximum fine of Rp 10 billion.
