Bareskrim Arrest Perpetrators Of Illegal Trading Robot Cases

Bareskrim Polri/Photo: VOI

The Directorate of Special Economic Crimes (Dittipideksus) of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police revealed a case of selling a trading robot application. In this case, six people were named as suspects.

"This company sells trading robot applications without a permit," said Director of Special Economic Crimes at the National Police Criminal Investigation Agency Brigadier General Whisnu Hermawan to reporters, Wednesday, January 19.

The six suspects had the initials AD, AMA, AK, D, DES and MS. The trading robot application is Evotrade which uses a Ponzi scheme.

A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment mode that pays investors profits out of their own money or money paid out by subsequent investors instead of the profits made by the individuals or organizations running these operations.

In addition, users of this illegal application are scattered in several areas. The number is in the thousands.

"There are 3,000 (users, red) spread over the areas of Jakarta, Bali, Surabaya, Malang, Aceh," said Whisnu.

Meanwhile, Head of Sub-Directorate V of Dirtipideksus, Kombes Ma'mun, said that the illegal context of this robot application was because there was no permission from Bank Indonesia and the Financial Services Authority (OJK).

Moreover, in their modus operandi, the perpetrators promise huge profits. In fact, the promised benefits were unreasonable.

"So the legs up to six will get the last 2 percent from the beginning 10 percent, 5 percent, 5 percent, 3 percent and 2 percent to six feet and so on and so on," said Ma'mun.

In this case, the suspects were charged with Article 105 and or Article 106 of Law Number 7 of 2014 concerning Trade and or Article 3 and or Article 4 and or Article 5 and or Article 6 in conjunction with Article 10 of Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Prevention and Eradication of the Crime of Money Laundering.