Police have named three journalists as suspects in the alleged extortion of a state civil servant in Lampung province.
“Three out of the five people that the police arrested yesterday have been named suspects,” chief of the public relations service of Lampung Provincial Police, Senior Commissioner Zahwani Pandra Arsyad, informed in Bandarlampung on Saturday.
The journalists, identified by their initials as Jun (47), Gan (43), and Am (49), allegedly demanded a sum of money from a civil servant in return for not publishing his adulterous chats.
The police arrested the journalists based on a report filed by the state civil servant, identified by his initials as BMBK, to the TBU police precinct, Bandarlampung city police, Lampung provincial police on August 18, 2022.
BMBK said he transferred Rp15 million and Rp10 million to the suspects.
If found guilty, the suspects could be sentenced to up to nine years in jail.
Source: Antara News