Runaway Wedding Planner: Depok Police arrest nuptials organizer for alleged financial fraud

Photo: Media library
Photo: Media library

After the huge scandal caused by travel agency First Travel’s pilgrimage package pyramid scheme, police in Depok have uncovered similar financial fraud plot allegedly being carried out by a wedding organizer in the satellite city.

According to the police, a wedding organizer company named Khalisa has been luring customers in with cheap nuptial packages, only for some of the customers to not get the wedding they had paid for because the company wasn’t able to cover the costs of organizing all of their customers special days.

“The payments from the (latest) customers were used to cover the deficits in the organizing of previous customers’ weddings,” said Commissioner Putu Kholis, head of the Crime Investigation Unit at the Depok Police, as quoted by Kompas yesterday.

Furthermore, Kholis said the owner of Khalisa, a man identified as Galih Darma Dewangga, had run away with his customers’ money and used it for his personal gain.

Galih was arrested on Saturday on suspicions of fraud and may face up to five years in prison. Ten of his customers reportedly did not get the weddings that they had paid for.

The police are investigating the case further in order to determine if anyone else were involved in the fraud.



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