JAKARTA - The illegal online loan office (pinjol) in the Pantai Indah Kapuk (PIK) 2 area that was raided has only been operating for about two months. However, this illegal pinjol has 14 applications.
"It started operating last year to be exact in December 2021," said the Head of Public Relations of the Polda Metro Jaya Kombes E. Zulpan to reporters, Wednesday, January 26.
The loan is called illegal because it does not have a permit from the Financial Services Authority (OJK). In practice, they disseminate information about the application of pinjol in various ways.
Based on the results of the examination, this illegal loan company has 14 applications. For example, Safe Funds and Rodi Money.
"There are 14 applications that they manage here including Secure Funds, Rodi Money, Guaranteed Loans, Gocredit, Main Funds. Then, Online Funds and so on," said Zulpan.
However, Zulpan has not been able to specify the number of customers from the 14 illegal loan applications. Because they are still investigating the matter.
"We'll check it out later, we just secured it today," said Zulpan.
From the raid on the loan office, as many as 99 people were arrested. One of them is a manager, the rest are employees.
"It consists of 1 manager, 98 employees," he said.
Dozens of employees were divided into two teams. The first team of 48 employees served as a reminder for customers to pay bills.
Meanwhile, the rest serve as reminders and collectors to customers who are late paying. They use methods that violate the rules.
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