The National Police Deportation Of 80 Chinese Criminals To Their Home Countries

JAKARTA - Investigators at the Directorate of Special Criminal Investigation at Polda Metro Jaya, handed over dozens of suspects in online fraud cases or telkom fraud crimes to the Immigration Directorate of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights. Later 80 of these suspects will be returned to their home country, China.

In addition to the 80 Chinese foreigners who were deported, five other suspects - Indonesian citizens - will return to their hometowns. The problem is that the five people were not involved in the fraud.

"The results of the examination are only 80 suspected of being involved in online fraud. In accordance with our coordination with the Directorate of Transportation and Immigration, we plan to submit 80 (suspects) to Immigration for further processing," said the Director of the Directorate of Special Criminal Investigation of Polda Metro Jaya, Kombes Pol. Iwan Kurniawan in Jakarta, Thursday, November 28.

Dozens of suspects were the result of prosecution in seven different locations. Six of them are in Jakarta and Tangerang, while the rest are arrested in Malang, East Java.

Furthermore, Iwan said that there were five other Chinese citizens who were arrested only after being investigated, they were not involved in fraud. Because from the examination, there was no indication of their involvement with the online fraud network.

"Because there is something related to their communication device being hacked. So we make sure they are not involved," said Iwan.

So, why were these perpetrators sent to China? This is all related to requests from the Chinese side. The Police are only the perpetrators of this crime.

Even though the suspects have made Indonesia a hiding place, the sanctions they will receive will be directly imposed by the Chinese side.

"We received requests from the Police and the Chinese Ambassador to arrest the perpetrators of online fraud. So we submit the legal process there," said Iwan.

Previously it was reported that dozens of foreign nationals from China were arrested by the Jakarta Police. This action was carried out in relation to the telkom fraud case or better known as online fraud.

In total there were 91 suspects, consisting of 85 Chinese citizens and 6 other people who were Indonesian citizens. They were arrested from a number of areas in Jakarta and Malang, East Java.

"(The number that was secured) was 91 people from 7 locations. There were 6 Indonesian citizens who were also arrested," said Kapolda Metro Jaya Gatot Eddy at Polda Metro Jaya, Tuesday, November 26.

The amount of losses was estimated at billions of rupiah from the fraud committed by the Chinese foreigners. "From the results of the investigation, the loss was Rp36 billion," added Gatot.

All perpetrators came to Indonesia using tourist visas. Gatot said, from the confessions of the suspects in the Chinese citizen fraud case, they had only been in Indonesia for three to four months.