TANGERANG, Banten (Jakarta Post): Security officers at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport have busted a ring of thieves responsible for stealing valuables from passenger luggage.
"So far, we have arrested a total of 25 suspects comprising 21 baggage handlers who work for Garuda Indonesia, Air Asia and Batavia Air. We also arrested four people suspected to be buyers of the stolen goods," airport police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. GunturSetyanto said Thursday.
Guntur said police were looking for seven more suspects.
Police also seized 160 stolen items, including cellular phones, multimedia players, watches, cameras, video cameras, sunglasses, perfume and jewelry.
Guntur said the suspects opened passengers' bags in the belly of the planes. For international flights, the thieves riffled through bags as they were being transported from the plane to the carousel.
The airport executive manager Edi Haryanto explained that on Oct. 25 security officers caught three airport workers stealing a necklace and a bracelet from passenger bags on an Air Asia flight to Kuala Lumpur.
They were transferred to police for further investigation, which led to the arrests of the 25 others suspects.
"The perpetrators will be charged with violating Article 363 of the Criminal Code and if proven guilty they face a maximum punishment of five years," Guntur said. (Multa Fidrus/**)
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