inp.polri.go.id - Semarang. The Central Java Provincial Police (Polda Jateng) investigated the embezzlement of hajj account funds at a private bank in the city of Semarang with a total loss of Rp918 million, which was allegedly carried out by an employee of the financial institution. Director of the General Criminal Investigation (Dirreskrimum) of Polda Jateng), Commissioner Djuhandhani Rahardjo Puro, S.H., in Semarang, Friday, confirmed the investigation into the alleged crime that harmed dozens of pilgrims. According to him, the chronology of the alleged criminal act of embezzling hajj funds began when that private bank was collaborating with the Ministry of Religion and opened a hajj registration service at a mall in Semarang City. The suspect, initialed AA, is one of the marketing-sales officers at the mall. Through the Hajj registration service at the mall, 36 people registered with the fee paid between Rp. 25 million to Rp25,5 million per person. Suspicions arose when customers were asked to complete the payment of hajj fees for Rp11 million per person because there was a quota of seats that would be dispatched in the next 5 years. The suspicious customers then went to the bank in question to confirm the fees that has to be paid. "When they checked to the bank, it turned out that the reported person had absent from work for a week for no apparent reason," stated Commissioner Djuhandhani Rahardjo Puro The perpetrator, according to Dirreskrimum Polda Jateng, is suspected of not having deposited the funds into the bank's treasury. The Directorate of General Criminal Investigation of Polda Jateng is currently pursuing the perpetrators who are assumed to have fled outside Java.