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Subject: [perempuan] Harjanto
Komala (Indonesian) to
charges of conspiracy to commit
sex trafficking
05/04/2005 12:03
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perempuan
U.S. Department of Justice
United States Attorney
Eastern District of Virginia
2100 Jamieson Avenue Tel: (703) 299-3758
Alexandria, Virginia 22314
News Release
For Immediate Release For further information
contact
Alexandria, Virginia Sam Dibbley
703-842-4050
April 26, 2005
Paul J. McNulty, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of
Virginia, and R. Alexander Acosta, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil
Rights Division, Department of Justice, announce the guilty plea of Hans
Gouw and Harjanto Komala to charges of conspiracy to commit sex
trafficking. It was further announced that Hans Gouw also pled to charges
of conspiracy to commit immigration fraud; conspiracy to commit
identification document fraud; and money laundering.
Pursuant to their plea agreements, Hans Gouw and Harjanto Komala
admitted that they sought to recruit young women, ages 16 to 23, to come to
the United States to work as striptease dancers and prostitutes. Once in
the United States, the women were to work for Gouw for a minimum of one
year. To ensure that the women did not leave his employment prematurely,
Gouw planned to confiscate their passports and to hire a person to monitor
the women at work and while residing in a common house under his control.
Mr. McNulty stated: ??This is a major step in our ongoing
??Operation Jakarta?. Gouw is the ringleader of a ??one-stop shop? for
a vast number of fraudulent government benefit and identification
documents. In addition to the extensive document fraud scheme in this case,
the defendants also attempted to exploit vulnerable teenage females by
bringing them to the United States for sexual activity. This type of human
trafficking is the most reprehensible type of criminal conduct.?
Mr. Acosta stated: ??Trafficking in persons for sexual purposes is
a debased and degrading practice, which must be stopped. The Department is
committed to eradicating this evil.?
Ms. Marcy Forman, Director of Investigations for the U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement said: "We're seeing more and more of
these type cases every day. Every time someone attempts to obtain benefits
by deception, it degrades the entire immigration system because fraudulent
documents present risks--the risk that criminals will use those documents
to further criminal schemes and the risk to our national security."
-more-
As part of their plan, Komala identified young women in Indonesia in
their teens and twenties, including a girl as young as fifteen years.
Komala sent photographs of each girl he recruited to Gouw along with
information about their age, height, and weight. Gouw, in turn, directed
an Indonesian associate to interview some of the young women identified by
Komala. With Komala??s assistance, the associate interviewed several
women in Jakarta to assess their suitability for nude striptease and
prostitution. During the interviews, Gouw??s employee explained to the
women the nature of the work to be performed in the United States and
assessed the women??s physical beauty.
Under his plea agreement, Gouw also admitted preparing and filing
fraudulent asylum applications and labor certification applications on
behalf of Indonesians living throughout the United States. The asylum
applications contained false accounts of persecution and false Indonesian
documents, including baptismal and birth certificates. The labor
certification applications contained false job offers and false
descriptions of the applicant??s work history. Gouw further acknowledged
assisting Indonesian immigrants from other states to obtain Virginia
identification cards and driver??s licenses. He did so by falsely
certifying on Virginia DMV forms that the Indonesians lived in Virginia
when in fact they lived in states such as California and Pennsylvania.
The charges against Gouw and Komala stem from a nearly two-year
investigation into the illegal practices of Indonesian immigration brokers
and consultants operating in Northern Virginia and Maryland. This
investigation led to charges against twenty-seven people, including Gouw
and Komala. Of these twenty-seven, nineteen have pleaded guilty, seven are
fugitives, and one awaits trial.
The twenty-seven defendants and the status of their cases are as
follows:
1) Hans Gouw, convicted of conspiracy to commit immigration fraud,
conspiracy to commit identification document fraud, conspiracy to commit
sex trafficking, and money laundering;
2) Harjanto Komala, convicted of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking;
3) Isnayanti Gouw, convicted of asylum fraud and conspiracy to commit
identification document fraud;
4) Jenny Gandasaputra, convicted of conspiracy to commit asylum fraud and
conspiracy to commit identification document fraud;
5) Megawaty Gandasaputra, convicted of conspiracy to commit asylum fraud,
conspiracy to commit identification document fraud, and conspiracy to
commit money laundering;
6) Johnson Aliffin, convicted of conspiracy to commit asylum fraud;
7) Surya Halim, convicted of asylum fraud;
8) Willy Irsan, convicted of conspiracy to commit asylum fraud;
9) Silvy Karageorge, convicted of asylum fraud;
-more-
10) Hanny Kembuan, convicted of asylum fraud;
11) Nany Kumala, convicted of conspiracy to commit asylum and
identification document fraud;
12) Lestari Nugroho, convicted of asylum fraud;
13) Achnita Supomo, convicted of asylum fraud;
14) Danny Susanto, convicted of conspiracy to commit asylum fraud;
15) Herman Tanudjaja, convicted of conspiracy to commit
identification document fraud; 16) Sari Tanudjaya, convicted of
conspiracy to commit identification document fraud;
17) Johannis Ticoalu, convicted of conspiracy to commit
identification document fraud;
18) Albert Warong, convicted of conspiracy to commit identification
document fraud; 19) Michael Wright, convicted of labor certification
fraud;
20) Joandi Gani, pending trial on a charge of labor certification fraud;
21) Ratna Hartanto, fugitive;
22) Henry Lee, fugitive;
23) Raymond Marschall, fugitive;
24) Irawan Muljadi, fugitive;
25) Brigitta Parera, aalso known as Maria Yohana, fugitive;
26) Rosita Setyawati, fugitive; and
27) Herlina Suherman, fugitive.
Gouw will be sentenced before the Honorable Judge Leonie M. Brinkema
on July 22, 2005. Komala will be sentenced before Judge Brinkema on July
8, 2005.
The investigation into the defendants?? activities was conducted by
a task force of federal and state law enforcement agencies. The
participating agencies included the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (Department of Homeland Security); Fairfax County Police
Department; Diplomatic Security Service (Department of State); Department
of Labor; Internal Revenue Service (Department of Treasury); Social
Security Administration; Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles; United
States Postal Inspection Service; U.S. Secret Service (Department of
Homeland Security); and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The task
force received important assistance from several other agencies including
the Office of Refugee, Asylum, and International Operations within
Citizenship and Immigration Services (Department of Homeland Security); the
Executive Office for Immigration Review (Department of Justice); the
Virginia Employment Commission; and the Employment and Training
Administration (Department of Labor).
Assistant United States Attorneys John Morton, Michael Rich, Rebeca
Bellows, and David Laufman, and Special Assistant United States Attorney
Beth Gibson prosecuted the cases for the government.
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