Bandung Celebrity Areta Febiola Arrested For Promoting Online Gambling, Gets Millions Every Month

Areta Febiola/PHOTO via Instagram @aretaaw

Bandung Police, West Java, arrested two celebrities from Bandung,Areta Febiola and Deni Sukirno, on suspicion of participating in promoting online gambling.

Bandung Police Chief Kombes Budi Sartono said the two suspects were promoting the gambling site through uploading stories on his Instagram account.

Suspect Dony promotes a gambling site called Aston138 through the Instagram account story of @den.suu, while the suspect Areta promotes three online gambling sites at once, namely zaraplay, wawaslot, and zigzagslot, through the @aretaaaw Instagram account.

"For @aretaaw, it is a celebgram with content creators of endorsers or YouTubers and content creators who have hundreds of thousands of followers," Budi said as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, August 23.

From the investigation carried out by investigators, the two suspects were initially contacted by the admin of the gamblingline site via DM Instagram to participate in promoting. After that, the conversation continued to WhatsApp.

Tempted by the admin's offer, Areta and Deni then promoted the online gambling site link by inserting it in the Instagram story.

When the link is clicked, said Budi, the followers of the perpetrators' Instagram will be directed directly to the gambling site in question.

"The players follow the filling guide, such as cellphone numbers, emails, and bank accounts, then the player deposits into the bookie's account," he said.

Budi revealed that the two perpetrators had been promoting the gambling site for 1 year.

From the promotional activities, the two perpetrators get a profit of Rp. 5 million to Rp. 10 million per month, or depend on the number of people who click on the gambling site.

"The suspects will automatically get a percentage, regardless of whether they win or lose," he said.

From this case, the police will carry out developments to find out the identity and pursue the admin and dealer of the judionline website who asked for the promotion services of the two perpetrators.

"We continue to develop it," he said.

In disclosing this case, the police secured evidence in the form of cell phones to savings accounts.

As a result of their actions, the two perpetrators were charged with Article 45 paragraph 2 of Law Number 19 of 2016 concerning Amendments to Law Number 11 of 2008 concerning Information and Electronic Transactions with the threat of imprisonment for 6 years.