Since April, The Komidiri Employees Association Has Started To Investigate Not Blocking Online Gambling Websites

JAKARTA - Polda Metro Jaya has named dozens of suspects in online gambling cases involving employees of the Ministry of Communication and Digital or Komdigi. From the results of the investigation, they have been in action since April 2024.

"They carried out operations, to carry out non-blocking activities on the website (online gambling) from April until yesterday they were arrested," said Director of General Criminal Investigation of the Metro Jaya Police, Kombes Wira Satya Triputra, to reporters, Monday, November 25.

The online gambling case, which was arrested by Komdigi employees, was known to have begun to be revealed when the police uncovered an online gambling case with the Sultan Win website.

This case was developed until it was revealed that there were'satellite offices' in the Bekasi area, West Java. Until finally, one by one the suspects were arrested.

"From April to yesterday's arrest, we managed to confiscate assets worth Rp. 167 billion," he said.

The confiscated assets included cash of Rp. 76,979,747,159 or Rp. 76.9 billion consisting of several foreign currency denominations.

Then the account balance or e-commerce that has been blocked is Rp29,863,895,007 or Rp29.8 billion.

In addition to money, the assets also confiscated were 63 jewelry worth Rp2,155,185,000; 13 luxury items such as bags and others for Rp315,000,000; 13 luxury watches worth Rp3,763,000,000.

There are also 390.5 grams of gold for IDR 5,857,500,000; 26 cars and 3 motorbikes worth IDR 22,930,000,000; 22 paintings for IDR 192,000,000; and 11 land and buildings with a value of IDR 25,830,000,000.

It was also confiscated by various electronic items such as 70 cellphones, 9 tablets, 25 laptops, and 10 PCs; 3 firearms along with 250 bullets.

In this case, 24 people have been named as suspects. In fact, there are four others who are fugitives.

Of the dozens of suspects, nine of them are employees of the Ministry of Komigi with the initials DI, FD, SA, YR, YP, RP, AP, RD, and RR. They play a role in blocking online gambling websites.

Then, there is also one other suspect who is an expert staff at the Ministry of Komdigi with the initials AK.

In this case, the suspects are charged with Article 303 of the Criminal Code and or Article 27 paragraph (2) of the Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 1 of 2024 concerning the Second Amendment to Law Number 11 of 2008 concerning Information and Electronic Transactions and or Article 3, Article 4, Article 5 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Prevention and Eradication of the Crime of Money Laundering Juncto Article 55 of the Criminal Code and 56 of the Criminal Code.