Conviction Claimed spiritual healing or mediumship Bekasi, West Java, Indonesia · 2023

Indonesia: life sentences for three money-ritual practitioners who poisoned clients who saw through the fraud

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

three practitioners operating a money-multiplication scheme

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

BORDERLINE, stated as such: the victims were clients under the practitioners' ritual authority, but the killings were to silence people who had seen through the fraud rather than acts of the ritual itself. It sits closer to fraud-homicide than to the pure coercion pattern, and is recorded with that qualification.

Prosperity, divination, or curse-removal claim

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2023-11-01 · convictions and life sentences

Pengadilan Negeri Bekasi, Indonesia. Wowon and two co-defendants were convicted at the Bekasi district court around November 2023 and sentenced to life imprisonment — the prosecution having sought death — for poisoning three clients of their money-multiplication scheme: Ai Maimunah, Muhamad Riswandi and Ridwan Abdul Muis, killed after they discovered the fraud.

Documented coercion mechanisms

ritual authority over paying clients
poisoning of clients who realised the scheme was fraudulent

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report Suara Bekasi: court report of the life sentences.: Regional outlet's court report.

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