Winda Earl Vs Maybank Case, Wimboh OJK: There Is Something, But We Don't Want To Go Ahead Of Law Enforcers

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Financial Services Authority (OJK) Wimboh Santoso spoke about the case of burglary to a Maybank Indonesia account in the name of Winda Lunardi or Winda Earl. According to him, OJK does not want to precede law enforcement in making statements.

Because of this, Wimboh also admitted to being very careful in making statements in public regarding the burglary case of Winda Earl's account, who is an e-Sports athlete.

"We've seen, we've entered, please wait. It's not good if this goes before law enforcement. Because Maybank itself has clarified and its customers have also reported something," he said, in a working meeting with Commission XI of the DPR, Thursday, November 12.

Even so, Wimboh indicated that something was going on behind the alleged theft of a Maybank bank account worth Rp22.8 billion.

"There is something, but we believe it will be resolved objectively and transparently," he explained.

Wimboh said, if the customer is not proven guilty, the customer's money will return. However, OJK did not elaborate further on the indications found by OJK.

"If the customer is innocent, the money will be returned," he said.

As is known, Bareskrim has named the Head of the Maybank Cipulir Branch with the initials A as a suspect in the alleged theft of Rp22.8 billion in savings balances.

Meanwhile, Attorney Hotman Paris Hutapea as the attorney of Maybank Indonesia saw something odd in this case. He questioned some of the strangeness of the case experienced by Winda Earl.

One of them, according to Hotman, was related to the flow of funds from Winda's account to Prudential through a transfer transaction of IDR 6 billion for the purchase of an insurance policy on Winda's behalf.

Hotman suspects that the Head of the Maybank Cipulir Branch with the initials A practiced banking within the bank by accessing customers' money. Because the money that was bought for the insurance policy was actually transferred to Winda's father, Herman Lunardi, for Rp.4.8 billion. He asked investigators to also investigate the findings.

Regarding this, Winda Earl admitted that he was disappointed with the statement of Maybank's attorney who said that the flow of funds for fraudulent accounts worth Rp22.8 billion was also received by his father.

Furthermore, Winda emphasized that his family did not know anything about the transfer of funds from his account to another account. He said he was only an ordinary customer who saved at the bank.

"I was quite hurt when I heard that there was a statement like my father was being carried around, I said that there was interest money transferred to my father. Meanwhile, we all don't know. I am just an ordinary customer who is saving money. So here I am very- How do you feel disappointed? Yes, upset, "said Winda, Jakarta, Monday night, November 9.

Winda also spoke about the statement of Maybank Indonesia's attorney, Hotman Paris, who said that there was a flow of funds to the personal account of Winda's father, Herman Gunardi, worth IDR4.8 billion, which was discovered based on an investigation by Maybank Indonesia's legal team through account mutations.

He emphasized that his father worked lawfully by obeying the existing law. He also guaranteed that there was no collaboration between his father and the Head of the Maybank Cipulir Branch initial A, who has now been named a suspect.

"So far, my father's business has been lawful, always obeying the law, it needs to be underlined. So there is no way, I guarantee that there is no possible cooperation between my father and the suspect," he said.