It’s not often that we hear stories of traffic police in Bali turning down bribes, but it apparently does really happen.
Klungkung Police was conducting a checkpoint when they stopped a man driving a white pickup without a driver’s license and an out-of-date vehicle registration. Identified as Mulyanto in a Tribun Bali report, the 40-year-old from East Java then allegedly tried to bribe his way out of the problem with Rp 500,000, according to Chief of Klungkung Police’s traffic unit, I Wayan Mudiasa.
Mulyanto had apparently been heading from Klungkung to Denpasar, then had plans to cross over to Java on Friday morning.
“Klungkung traffic police officers were not tempted by the lure of the money, we still ticketed (Mulyanto) because he didn’t have a driver’s license and his vehicle registration was already expired. The vehicle was seized and taken to the Klungkung Police Office,” Mudiasa told Tribun on Saturday.
And it just so happened that at about the same time that Mulyanto went through the checkpoint, Klungkung Police received a report of a stolen white four-wheel pickup that had the exact same time plate as the pick-up Mulyanto was found with.
It wasn’t hard for police to connect the dots and call in the owner of the stolen vehicle, Nyoman Gede Widana, to come and identify his pickup. The final twist of the story was that Mulyanto had actually been under Widana’s employment as a project worker. Yikes, guess the guy is out of a job.
