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‘Money-multiplying shaman’ allegedly kills 12 in Central Java
Banjarnegara Police in Central Java have arrested 45-year-old Slamet Tohari who is believed to have killed at least 12 people he had promised to multiply money for.
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Search workers exhume bodies allegedly belonging to victims of Slamet Tohari, a self-styled shaman who claimed to be able to multiply his victims money, on the edge of a forest in Wanayasa district, Banjarnegara regency, Central Java, on Apr. 3. (JP/Central Java Police Public Relations)
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anjarnegara Police in Central Java have arrested 45-year-old Slamet Tohari who has allegedly killed at least 12 people he had promised to multiply money for.
In the past week, police have exhumed the remains of his victims, buried in the woods outside his residence in Balun, Wanayasa district.
The arrest was made following a report from the family of his last victim, a 53-year-old man Paryanto who hailed from Sukabumi in West Java.
Banjarnegara Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Hendri Yulianto said that Paryanto asked Slamet to multiply his money. “The suspect claimed to be a shaman able to multiply the victim’s Rp 70 million [US$4,690] into Rp 5 billion,” Hendri told a press conference on Monday.
Paryanto came to Slamet in July and had given him a total of Rp 70 million. After months of waiting with no result, Paryanto asked Slamet to return his money. Slamet agreed and set up a meeting at a lodging in Banjarnegara on March 23.
Immediately after meeting with Slamet, the victim texted his family, giving Slamet’s address and saying that if they did not hear from him in three days they should come to Slamet’s house with the police.
On March 27, the family made a report to the local police and found that PO was already dead and his remains had been buried near a path heading toward Wanayasa woods.
