The Financial Planners Association Called Winda Earl's Account Breach A Personality Crime

Winda Earl. (Foto: Instagram @evos.earl)

JAKARTA - Chairman & President of the Indonesian Financial Planners Association (IARFC) Aidil Akbar Madjid highlighted several irregularities behind the case of theft of an account balance worth Rp22.8 billion belonging to e-Sports athlete Winda Lunardi or Winda Earl. There is a strong suspicion that the theft of this account was purely the act of the Head of the Maybank Cipulir Branch with the initials AT.

This allegation is not without reason. This is because banks have standard operating procedures (SOPs) when carrying out transactions, so according to Aidil there could be no mistakes.

"The bank already has SOPs for transactions. So at the time of the transaction, there must have been two people involved. So for example, if there was a breach, that person took the action. It was the bank," Aidil told VOI, Thursday, November 12.

Another irregularity was related to the savings book and ATM card kept by the suspect. According to Aidul, this is unusual.

"Surely you don't want (the savings book and ATM) to be held by other people. Never mind Rp. 22 billion, Rp1 billion does not necessarily mean that anyone will," he said.

Therefore, Aidil advised Maybank to follow the existing legal process. Even though in his judgment, the error in this case is purely an individual error.

"The point is to follow legal procedures. If there is a mistake, it is most likely Maybank," he said.

In handling the case, the National Police Criminal Investigation Unit named the Head of the Maybank Cipulir Branch with the initials AT as a suspect. He committed the crime by offering victims to open futures accounts and falsifying data.

To smooth the action, the Head of the Maybank Cipulir Branch seduced the victim with a high interest rate of 10 percent if he wanted to open a term account. Even though there is no interest rate for the term savings as promised.

The suspect charged under Article 49 Paragraph (1) and Paragraph (2) of Law Number 10 of 1998 concerning Amendments to Law Number 7 of 1992 concerning Banking. Then Article 3, Article 4 and Article 5 of Law no. 8 of 2010 concerning Prevention and Eradication of the Crime of Money Laundering.