Help Cai Changpan Escape, 2 Tangerang Prison Officers Receive 100,000 IDR Rewards

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – The warden and the official, both with the initials S, are rewarded for helping the inmate, Cai Changpan, who escaped from the Class I prison in Tangerang.

The two prison officials received 100,000 rupees each time they helped Cai Changpan, such as buying and delivering a water pump.

The water pump was used by Cai Changpan to suck out the water that came out while digging an escape hole in the cell.

“According to the purchase statement, he received 100,000 rupees in exchange. Delivered (to the cell phone) also 100,000 rupees,” Polda Metro Jaya’s head of Public Relations, Kombes Pol Yusri Yunus, told reporters on Friday (2/10/2020 ).

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However, Yusri said, the statements of the two prison officials are still being investigated by conducting case titles.

“That is the statement in question. We are still studying. Hopefully the title of the case is over and the status can be elevated from witness to suspect,” Yusri said.

Cai Changpan, alias Anthoni, escaped from Tangerang Class I Prison on September 14.

Cai Changpan is not the first to escape. The Chinese drug trafficker who possesses 135 kilograms of shabu-shabu also escaped from the Criminal Investigation Detention Center of the Police Headquarters on January 24, 2017.

In this escape, Cai Changpan punched a hole from the cell to the sewer. The length of the well is estimated at 30 meters.

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So far, Cai Changpan has not been arrested and is still being pursued by the police. The police have put Cai Changpan on the wanted list (DPO).

Police examined 14 witnesses, including cellmates, prison officials, and Cai Changpan’s wife.

According to witness testimony, Changpan aka Cai Ji Fan aka Antoni happened to buy cigarettes after fleeing and returning to meet his wife at their home in the Tenjo area, Bogor, West Java. After that, Cai Changpan escaped again.