Changes In Illegal Lodging Operational Patterns, Used To Use Offices Now Boarders

Release of illegal borrowing case at Polda Metro Jaya/PHOTO: Rizky Adytia -VOI

JAKARTA - The police said there was a change in the pattern of criminal operations behind the case of illegal online loans (pinjol). Currently, the perpetrators offer or run loans no longer from the office, but from homes and boarding houses.

"Yes, not in the office, they don't play in the rich office anymore. So it's no longer like it used to be," said the Director of Special Criminal Investigation at the Metro Jaya Police, Kombes Auliansyah Lubis, to reporters, Friday, May 27.

Changes in the pattern of borrowing that use houses and boarding houses as locations for running a business are known based on the disclosure of 58 applications with 11 suspects.

The purpose behind this change in pattern is as a modus operandi so that it is not easy for the police to track them down.

"Now they play in the house secretly," he said.

Specifically for the handling of dozens of suspects with 58 illegal loan applications, Auliansyah said his party was still investigating. It is suspected that there are other applications that enter the network.

However, it is confirmed that the 58 illegal loan applications have been closed.

"We have coordinated with Kominfo friends that this application is illegal. So it doesn't exist anymore, it has been closed," said Auliansyah.

As previously reported, the police uncovered 58 illegal loan applications that were troubling the public. A total of 11 people have been named as suspects.

The disclosure of this illegal borrowing case is based on four police reports received since March 2022.

From the report, an investigation and investigation was carried out to apprehend 11 suspects. They were arrested at different locations and times, namely Cengkareng, Kalideres, Petamburan, and Kebayoran Baru.