Two employees at Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport have been arrested, accused of stealing a traveler’s credit card and putting Rp 68 million worth of charges on it.
“The incident happened on June 21, 2017 at Ngurah Rai Airport,” Denpasar Police Superintendent Nyoman Artana told Detik on Thursday.
It all apparently started when the traveler got off an AirAsia flight from Jakarta and went straight to his hotel in Bali, leaving his wallet in the plane seat.
Realizing he had forgotten his wallet, the passenger went back to the airport to collect his wallet—but failed to notice his card from bank BCA was missing.
But not too long after, the unfortunate traveler got news that his credit card balance was up. Way up.
“The victim suffered losses of Rp 68,702,080,” says Artana.
The card had allegedly been taken by two AirAsia Aviation Security officers. The officers did return the man’s wallet to lost and found, but not before pulling out the credit card and contacting a recidivist fraudster friend to get the card and use it for “shopping charges” of Rp 15 million, Rp 14.5 million, and Rp 14 million, which actually just went into the accounts of the perpetrators, according to police.
The card was additionally used for some real-life shopping transactions. First to buy Rp 500k worth of gasoline, then for three televisions, and finally, for some clothing from Levi’s and Nike. After the card hit its limit, the perpetrators allegedly threw it away.
The three men (the two AirAsia AVSEC officers and their fraudster friend) have been arrested and are facing charges under Article 363 of the Criminal Code, which carries a minimum of seven years in prison.
Correction: An earlier version of this story stated that the incident happened in July 2017. It happened in June 2017. We apologize for the error.
