JAKARTA - The Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police is targeting three affiliates based on the development of a suspected fraud case under the guise of binary options trading. The development is carried out by the Directorate for Cyber Crimes and Special Economic Crimes. "(The one being investigated, red) is DS, yes," said the Director of Special Economic Crimes at the National Police Criminal Investigation Agency Brigadier General Whisnu Hermawan to reporters, Tuesday, March 1. the reporting party reports it not to the Directorate of Special Economic Crimes. However, Whisnu stated that the alleged fraud case is still being processed properly and according to the rules. However, until now the process is still in the stage of examining witnesses. "I also have developments for other suspected affiliators, but at this time we are still investigating the witnesses," said Whisnu. Based on information, the two affiliates whose involvement is being investigated have the initials PS and EL. The lawyer for Binomo's victim, Finsensius Menndrofa, said that the victims really hope that this case can be resolved by the police. Means including other affiliates must also be checked.

"We hope that the investigation will not only stop at IK but also the Binomo application and other affiliates, including binary options other than Binomo," said Finsensius.

Finsensius also said that the figure of the affiliate is the same as Indra Kenz who is an influencer. Finsensius revealed that there are at least 3 initials of the affiliator namely DS, EL, and PS which are suspected to be summoned in the near future.

Previously, the Investment Alert Task Force (SWI) through the Chairperson of SWI Tongam L. Tobing had summoned five influencer status people who were allegedly affiliated with an illegal financial platform. The Task Force estimates that the five people have a strong influence because they have quite a lot of followers.

“The five people are Indra Kenz (Indra Kesuma), Kenneth William, Vincent Raditya, Erwin Laisuman, and Doni Salman (Doni Muhammad Taufik). At the meeting we told them to stop all promotional and training activities and delete content on their social media. Then, we asked them to sign a statement to remove all the contents," said Tongam, last February 21.

To them, the Chairperson of SWI asked influencers and other affiliates not to promote or share materials related to illegal financial activities or brokers abroad.


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