A Peruvian fugitive has been arrested in Pekanbaru, Sumatra, a little more than a week after he escaped from custody in Bali by fleeing through a bathroom window in Denpasar court.
Jose William Salazar Ortiz was reportedly secured in Pekanbaru by Denpasar Police teams on Wednesday.
Ortiz had been en route to Malaysia when police apprehended him in Riau’s capital city.
The Peruvian national had been using a fake Chilean passport with a name similar to his own, according to police.
“He was using a Chilean identity, so not a Peruvian one. He was going on a road trip to Malaysia,” Denpasar Police Chief Hadi Purnomo said on Wednesday, as quoted by Tribun Bali.
After arriving in Malaysia, Ortiz planned to return to Peru, police said.
Ortiz is one of three Peruvian defendants charged with participating in a network of ATM fraud. The three were previously arrested in Jakarta in January 2017, then taken to Denpasar for further legal processing since their alleged crimes mostly took place in Bali.
Prosecutors recommended Ortiz get seven years jail time over the ATM fraud case.
