JAKARTA - Polda Metro Jaya dismantles the practice of online scamming (in-net fraud) with the trading mode of crypto market funds.
Director of Cyber Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Roberto GM Pasaribu said the victims were offered share investment through social media such as Facebook with the lure of reaching 150 percent.
"This is where this group of perpetrators uses information technology facilities. They manipulate them so that victims will obey what the perpetrators say," Roberto said at a press conference at Polda Metro Jaya, Friday, May 2.
From reports from incoming victims, including at Polda Metro Jaya, the losses caused by the scamming online criminal activity reached more than Rp. 18.3 billion (Rp. 18,332,100,000), with eight victims.
"Currently there are three police reports identified at Polda Metro Jaya, then there are also three additions from the ranks of the Resort Police. Then there are from the East Java Regional Police and the Yogyakarta Regional Police, one each," said Roberto.
Roberto revealed that two suspects were arrested by the Police, one of whom was a Malaysian citizen with the initials YCF and one suspect from Indonesia named SP.
"These Malaysians came to Indonesia to recruit one more suspect, namely SP who is an Indonesian citizen. This SP was recruited to prepare an account, as well as a fictitious PT-PT registered with the AHU (Directorate General of General Legal Administration (Ditjen AHU) Ministry of Law and Human Rights RI)," explained Roberto.
The SP suspect, he said, played a role in finding people who were willing to provide identities as a condition for the creation of accounts and ownership of a number of companies which were then used as fictitious stock frills.
"So this YCF provides capital, funds to the SP suspect for the process of making accounts and companies," Roberto said as quoted by Antara.
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Furthermore, the two suspects brought all company documents, accounts, and other equipment used for online transactions (fraud).
"There are cellphones, SIMIndonesia cards. Later it will be given to their network in Malaysia which will then be used to online scams," said Roberto.
For the actions of the two perpetrators, they were charged with Article 45 A paragraph 1 Jo. Article 28 paragraph 1 of Law Number 1 of 2024 concerning Information and Electronic Transactions. The suspect was also charged with Article 378 of the Criminal Code and or Article 3, Article 4, and Article 5 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Prevention and Eradication of the Crime of Money Laundering (TPPU).
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