Citibank Accused of Murdering a Credit Card Deadbeat - Polidicks

Source: [url]http://gawker.com/5831666/[/url] [quote]Are you feeling the heat from debt collectors? Or maybe you just aren't sure how you'll make your next credit card payment? Whatever the case, just be thankful you don't owe money to Citibank in Indonesia. And if you do, don't accept an invitation to settle in the bank's interrogation room. The Washington Post today has the horrifying story of a 50-year-old Indonesian businessman named Irzen Octa who owed $5,700 on his Citibank credit card. Fearful of losing his home, he accepted an invitation to be questioned at a Citibank office in Jakarta, which has a camera-free interrogation room for its mercenary debt collectors. "Wish me luck," [Octa] apparently told his wife before leaving home March 28. "I may be signing a new contract and can settle our debts." He set off about 6 a.m. on his motorcycle, driving first to a school to drop off his younger daughter and then heading to Jakarta. He had a "very happy face," his widow recalled. In the afternoon, a friend of her husband, Tubagus Surya, telephoned from a Citibank office in south Jakarta and told her that her husband had "gone." Surya, who arrived at the Citibank office soon after his friend collapsed, said in a telephone interview that he found Octa sprawled on the floor with his nose bleeding and bruises on his head and abdomen. Two hours later, Octa was captured on security cameras being wheeled out of the room "apparently unconscious or dead." A doctor who examined Octa's corpse the day after he died wrote two reports: One said he had suffered "asphyxiation" and a "strike from a blunt instrument"; the other said that he'd had a brain hemorrhage. A "deeply saddened" Citibank said it had nothing to do with Octa's death. And besides, its debt collectors at the time were outsourced and weren't even Citibank employees! The bank's new country head, Tigor Siahaan told the Post that Octa "could have died of natural causes." He added that Citibank doesn't even allow "harsh language," let alone murder when it's trying to settle with deadbeats.[/quote] The moral of the story is, pay your bills.

They can get away with this shit in a civilized country?

[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;31782198]They can get away with this shit in a civilized country?[/QUOTE]Obviously.

[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;31782198]They can get away with this shit in a civilized country?[/QUOTE] It happened in Indonesia, not a civilised country.

[QUOTE=GunsNRoses2;31782216]It happened in Indonesia, not a civilised country.[/QUOTE]Indonesia isn't exactly third-world.

I have an old bank account from Citibank. Tempted to go close it in person and call them all murderers while doing it.

[QUOTE=faze;31782223]Indonesia isn't exactly third-world.[/QUOTE] I just mean they're quite backward.

[QUOTE=GunsNRoses2;31782354]I just mean they're quite backward.[/QUOTE]How so?

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law_in_Indonesia[/url] [quote]In September 2005, an East Java court sentenced each of six drug and cancer treatment counselors at an East Java treatment center to five years in prison and an additional three years in prison for violating key precepts of Islam by using paranormal healing methods. A local MUI edict characterized the center's methods as heretical. Police arrested the counselors while they tried to defend themselves from hundreds of persons who raided the center's headquarters.[3][/quote] [quote]On 9 December 2008, hundreds of Muslim rioters damaged sixty-seven houses, a church, and a community hall, and injured five people in Masohi, Central Maluku. The rioters were allegedly angry that a Christian school teacher, Welhelmina Holle, had allegedly said something blasphemous during an after-class tutorial at an elementary school.[7] The police arrested Holle for blasphemy. The police arrested two Muslim men for inciting violence.[8][/quote] etc etc

[quote]A "deeply saddened" Citibank said it had nothing to do with Octa's death.[/quote] "Deeply saddened"

Oh well, they can't help it. Just because the guy got beaten to death or strangled while in the same room as a pair of Citibank employees, you can't blame the bank!

[QUOTE=Codename 47;31782636]Oh well, they can't help it. Just because the guy got beaten to death or strangled while in the same room as a pair of Citibank employees, you can't blame the bank![/QUOTE] [quote]And besides, its debt collectors at the time were outsourced and weren't even Citibank employees![/quote] It isn't a very strong point, they should be careful that they don't hire, uh, murderers. Just saying.

Wow "he could have died from natural causes" I don't even know what to say about that.

He drove his kid to school on a motorcycle. wat

[QUOTE=Si`Sik;31783050]He drove his kid to school on a motorcycle. wat[/QUOTE] Does noone do that where you live??

Not at all, from the story I'm assuming it's a young kid; in-fact if anyone seen that over here they'd shit bricks. I guess it's just different cultures, unless he had one of those side-cart things then it'd be awesome.

[QUOTE=Si`Sik;31783322]Not at all, from the story I'm assuming it's a young kid; in-fact if anyone seen that over here they'd shit bricks. I guess it's just different cultures, unless he had one of those side-cart things then it'd be awesome.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/m_P1020363.jpg[/IMG] See that thing on the back of the motorcycle? guess what that's for. And it's legal in the EU too.

Something fishy about the interrogation, they weren't apparently even the bank's employees. So this is criminal, definitely.

[img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JbcW7ewATGo/TJLH_GZ75aI/AAAAAAAACuM/9BshGC7iu2Y/s1600/fallingdown2.jpg[/img] Its because he wasnt 'economically viable'

[QUOTE=Parakon;31782929]Wow "he could have died from natural causes" I don't even know what to say about that.[/QUOTE] [img]http://imgkk.com/i/4fwv.jpg[/img]

and now he can't pay the bills dumbasses

My Mom always told me unpaid bills were a killer. Guess she was right.

Guns don't kill people, people not paying bills kills people.