Celebrity Arrested Again Because Of Online Gambling Promotion, This Time Women In Purwakarta

PURWAKARTA - Police officers from the Purwakarta Police announced the arrest of a 19-year-old female celebrity for allegedly promoting online gambling sites on her social media.

"The woman who is a celebrity with the initials FS," said Deputy Chief of the Purwakarta Police, Kompol Ahmad Mega Rahmawan, quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, September 20.

This celebgram was arrested at his home in the Bungursari District, Purwakarta on August 29.

The evidence confiscated from the perpetrator was in the form of a cellphone, an Instagram account with 44.9 thousand followers/followers belonging to the perpetrator, one BRI ATM card and a screenshot of the online gambling site.

The celebrity's action was revealed to have started from public information and cyber patrols. In accordance with the results of the examination, FS has been promoting online gambling on his Instagram for about three months.

In carrying out the action, FS promoted the gambling on this inismott_ Instagram account which has 44.9 thousand followers.

Every month, FS gets a contract fee every week of Rp. 200 thousand. The money was sent directly to his account number.

Initially, the perpetrator endorsed online gambling after a direct message from the TD account and offered to work together to promote and advertise online gambling sites under the name of the Akaislot site.

After agreeing, FS promotes or advertises online gambling sites with the form of promotions or advertisements offered by the perpetrators.

In a day, the promotion is in the form of a photo slot and video sent by the T.D. account along with the link which was then broadcast on FS's Instagram.

For his actions, FS perpetrators are threatened with Article 45 paragraph (2) in conjunction with Article 27 paragraph (2) of Law Number 19 of 2016 concerning Amendments to Law Number 11 of 2008 concerning Electronic Information and Transactions (online gambling) with a penalty of six years in prison.