Bareskrim Polri Unloads Online Gambling Headquarters In Bali

Director of Cyber Crime at Bareskrim Polri Brigadier General Adi Vivid/PHOTO: Rizky Adytia-VOI

JAKARTA - The Directorate of Cyber Crime, Bareskrim Polri, demolished the online gambling headquarters in the Bali area. From the disclosure, 31 people were arrested and named suspects.

"In the raid, Alhamdulillah, we arrested 31 people suspected of being the perpetrators of website management," said Director of Cyber Crime at the National Police Criminal Investigation Agency Brigadier General Adi Vivid to reporters, Wednesday, August 30.

The disclosure of the online gambling headquarters began with cyber patrols carried out by the Cyber Crime Directorate of the National Police and the Regional Police.

Then explored and obtained location instructions that were used as a place for online gambling management in the Sanur area, South Denpasar, Bali City.

"We took action or raids, which were carried out on Friday, August 18, 2023 at around 02.30 WITA," he said.

Sure enough, the location was used as the headquarters for online gambling. This is because the place is used as a house as well as an office to manage five online gambling sites, namely, Hotel Slot 88, Auto Cuan 88, Jaya Slot 28, Oscar 28, and Siera 77.

"At the location, we found various electronic equipment that was allegedly used to support the operation of online gambling practices, including several cellphones, there are facilities for internet connection, then there are also PCs and laptops," said Vivid.

A total of 240 personal computers or laptops with the Lenovo, Dell and Asus brands. Then we also found 253 cellphones including the Redmi, Vivo, Ovo, and Iphone brands. Then 58 bank accounts including BCA, BRI, Mandiri and Permata," he continued.

From the interim examination, the 31 people are known to have different roles. Starting from administrators to web telemarketing leaders.

First, their role is as administrators and leader of telemarketing websites. Then there are also telemarketing officers, and there are administrators and coordinators of all websites," said Adi Vivid.

In this case, the suspect who is the coordinator or leader is suspected of Article 45 paragraph 2 in conjunction with Article 27 paragraph 2 of the ITE Law and or Article 303 paragraph 1 to 1 and 2 of the Criminal Code and also Article 3 and Article 10 of the Money Laundering Law.

Meanwhile, suspects who act as telemarketing employees are subject to Article 45 paragraph 2 in conjunction with Article 27 paragraph 2 of the ITE Law and Article 303 paragraph 1 to 1 and 2 of the Criminal Code.