Criminal Investigation Unit Is Searching For Owner of Evotrade, The Illegal Trading Robot Application

Karo Penmas Police Public Relations Division Brigadier General Ahmad Ramadhan/Polri Public Relations DOK

JAKARTA - The Directorate of Special Economic Crimes (Dittipideksus) of the National Police-Criminal Investigation Unit is hunting for another suspect in the Evotrade illegal trading robot case. The fugitive is the owner of the application.

"One suspect is still being pursued," said Head of Public Information Bureau (Karo Penmas) of the Public Relations Division of the National Police Brigadier General Ahmad Ramadhan to reporters, Tuesday, January 25.

The fugitive is known as Anang Diantoko. Meanwhile, for the development of the handling of this case, continued Ramadhan, investigators have detained three suspects.

One of them is Muhammad Agung Prabowo who was arrested at a hotel in the Central Jakarta area, on Thursday, January 20. He acts as the owner of the Evotrade trading robot application

"Currently the update is that 3 people have been detained," said Ramadhan.

In the development of this case, investigators have blocked several accounts to be used as evidence. Where the blocked funds reached tens of billions.

The money confiscated in this case also increased. Because previously, investigators had confiscated money worth IDR 12.5 billion from suspect Muhammad Agung Prabowo.

"Seize evidence of IDR 12.5 billion in cash and an additional block of IDR 75 billion," said Ramadhan.

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

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 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.