Police Apply For The Blocking Of 47 Accounts Of Suspects Of Online Gambling Beking Komdigi

JAKARTA - The police have filed a blocking of 47 accounts related to an online gambling case involving employees of the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi).

Head of Public Relations of Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Ade Ary Syam Indradi said the dozens of accounts belonged to the suspects who had been confiscated as evidence.

"Investigators have also submitted blocking of 47 accounts belonging to the suspects," Ade told reporters, Thursday, November 7.

The blocking of the accounts of the suspects is suspected to be related to the investigators' efforts to investigate the crime of money laundering (TPPU).

Not only that, investigators are also recording accounts used by online gambling websites. Usually, the account is used for capital deposits and withdraw.

"It is currently inventorying the account of the online gambling website for further blocking," said Ade.

In this case, investigators have also confiscated a number of evidences, one of which includes cash amounting to Rp73 billion.

The tens of billions of money is the total of several foreign currencies confiscated from the suspects.

In detail, rupiah money amounted to Rp35,792,110,000 billion, 2,955,779 Singapore dollars or Rp35,043,272,475 (Rp35 billion).

Then, 183,500 US dollars, which when converted to rupiah is Rp2,888,106,500 or Rp2.8 billion.

In the overall Komdigi online gambling case, 15 people have been named as suspects.

Dozens of people named as suspects, consisting of 11 Komdigi employees and four civilians.

Three of them are controllers of the'satellite office' used to condition online gambling sites. The location of the satellite office is in Ruko Galaxy, South Bekasi.

The controllers of the satellite office had the initials A, AK, and AJ. Now, the police are also putting the names of two suspects on the wanted list (DPO), namely A and M.