Public Figure Recipient Of Doni Salmanan's Flow Of Funds, Wasn't Asked But Wanted To Return

JAKARTA - The Criminal Investigation Unit of the Police has investigated four public figures who received funds from Doni Salmanan in the online gambling case under the guise of Quotex trading. They are willing to return gifts even though they are not asked.

The public figures are Rizky Febian, Arief Muhamad, Atta Halilintar, and Reza Arap.

For Rizky Febian, the singer through his lawyer Ahmad Ramzy stated that he would return the IDR 400 million given by Doni Salmanan.

The money was given to the Quotex affiliate in September 2021. The money was given when the son of comedian Sule uploaded a photo of his concoction drink on Instagram and asked followers to give a price.

"We are ready (to return the money, red), we have explained everything," said Ramzy.

However, Ramzy claims that in the process of examining his client which took place on Wednesday, March 16, investigators did not mention the issue of refunds.

"There is no going there (the question of refunds, ed) because we convey everything to the investigators. So later the investigators will conclude what it will be like," he said.

Similarly, influencer Arief Muhamad is also willing to return Rp4 billion from the sale and purchase of a Porsche 911 Carerra 4S with Doni Salmanan.

However, the money will only be returned if the investigator asks for it. As a good citizen, this Youtuber will help the investigation process.

"I am a good citizen, I will be very cooperative, if for example the investigator needs it or whatever the investigator needs, we will cooperate," said Arief.

However, Arief said, until now investigators have not mentioned or asked for the Rp4 billion to be returned. Including during the inspection process.

"When we were asked, there was no discussion about it at all," he said

So far, the questions raised by investigators are regarding the process of buying and selling luxury cars with Doni Salmanan.

"Yes, so it is according to what was predicted, so today we are just talking about buying and selling cars, it just so happened that Doni Salmanan bought my Porsche," said Arief.

"There is no other conversation besides that, because our relationship is limited to buying and selling cars," he continued.

Youtuber Atta Halilintar also returned Doni Salmanan's bag. The bag was a gift for Aurel Hermansyah's husband's birthday.

Atta gave the Dior brand bag to investigators during the examination process. The luxury bag has now become one of the evidences for the money laundering crime (TPPU) in the Quotex online gambling case with the suspect Doni Salmanan.

"Why do you turn it back (the bag, ed)," said Head of Sub-Directorate I of the Directorate of Cyber Crime, Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police, Kombes Reinhard Hutagaol.

Reza Arap seemed to follow the others. He also decided to return Doni Salmanan's saweran amounting to Rp. 1 billion.

The Head of the Public Relations Division of the National Police's Public Relations Division, Kombes Gatot Repli Handoko, said that the decision was made by Reza during a series of investigations.

"It will be handed over to investigators," said Gatot.

However, when it was mentioned that the refund was an initiative of Reza Arap, Gatot did not explain in detail.

According to Gatot, there was an agreement between investigators and Reza regarding the return of the money.

"There may be an agreement with investigators to return the money," said Gatot.

For information, in this case, Doni Salmanan has become a suspect. In fact, he was suspected of having multiple articles

The articles used by investigators include Article 45 paragraph 1 junto 28 paragraph 1 of the ITE Law, Article 378 of the Criminal Code, and Article 3 of Law No. 8 of 2010 concerning Eradication of Money Laundering.

So, with this layered article, Doni Salmanan is threatened with 20 years of criminal sanctions