Can't Return Doni Salmanan's Money, Alffy Rev Allows Police To Confiscate Computers And Cameras

Alffy Rev (YouTube Screenshot)

JAKARTA - Musician Alffy Rev has been questioned by investigators from the Directorate of Cyber Crime (Dittipidsiber) of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Police as a witness in the Binary Option Quotex trading investment fraud case with the suspect Doni Salmanan.

Alffy told the media at the Criminal Investigation Unit (Bareskrim) Police Headquarters, Thursday, that his investigation was related to the sponsorship money given by Doni Salmanan to the Wonderland Indonesia project.

"Essentially, I just told the investigators. I relaxed like I was really telling what happened, then how Wonderland Indonesia was able to support Doni," said Alffy.

According to Alffy, the nominal sponsorship money given by Doni Salmanan is not up to billions. The money has been used to fund the big project. "Not up to 1 billion, (hundreds of millions) yes," he said.

During the investigation, said Alffy, he also told how the project could be supported by Crazy Rich Bandung. It started with Alffy Rev's Instagram post which announced that the Wonderland Indonesia project proposal was rejected.

Then, continued Alffy, Doni Salmanan helped the project run and was directed by him in 2021. Alffy also revealed that during the examination, investigators had also discussed the refund of sponsorship money given by Doni Salmanan.

According to Alffy, the money has been used and spent on the production of the Wonderland project, which involves hundreds of Indonesian crew and artists.

"But if, for example, you are demanded to be responsible, I said at that time, please take our animation computer, a camera if it is not enough. I think that is enough," he said, quoted from ANTARA.

Regarding this case, Alffy admitted that he did not hesitate to accept assistance from anywhere, in fact this incident became an important point in how projects such as Wonderland Indonesia received support from the government.

"What should be the point is how Wonderland Indonesia is supported by the government, we should be supported. Wonderland Indonesia is a joint work to be celebrated together, so hopefully we can get sponsors who should sponsor," said Alffy.

Alffy Rev, one of the public figures who was also examined as a witness related to Doni Salmanan's funds flow. It is suspected that the money came from the money laundering act of the Binary Option Quotex application.

The Head of the Public Information Bureau (Karopenmas) of the Public Relations Division of the Police Brigadier General Ahmad Ramadhan said today (Thursday-ed) Investigators of the Directorate of Cyber Crime (Dittipidsiber) of the National Police Criminal Investigation Unit summoned witnesses on behalf of Alffy Rev.

In this case, continued Ramadhan, a total of 54 witnesses were examined, consisting of 9 expert witnesses, two linguists each, two ITE experts, three criminal experts, one investment expert and one cybersecurity expert.

"Then investigators continue to coordinate with stakeholders or related agencies to trace assets belonging to suspect DS," said Ramadhan.

Doni Salmanan was charged with Article 45 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 28 paragraph (1) of the ITE Law, which carries a penalty of 6 years in prison. In addition, Article 378 of the Criminal Code carries a 4-year prison term and Article 3 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Prevention and Eradication of the Crime of Money Laundering with a threat of 20 years in prison and a maximum fine of IDR 10 billion.