The Leader Of Pinjol 'AkuKaya' In Manado Is Threatened With 12 Years In Prison And A Maximum Fine Of IDR 12 Billion

Illustration - Victims of illegal online loans (online) show SMS threats he received from illegal loan applications. ANTARA

Investigators from the Cyber Sub-Directorate of the Special Criminal Investigation Directorate of the Metro Jaya Police have named two people as suspects in the illegal online loan (pinjol) case in Manado, North Sulawesi. Kedua tersangka A dan G dijerat dengan Pasal 30 Juncto Pasal 46 dan atau Pasal 32 jo Pasal 48 dan atau Pasal 29 jo Pasal 45B dan atau Pasal 27 ayat (4) jo Pasal 45 ayat (4) Undang-Undang Nomor 19 Tahun 2016 tentang perubahan atas UU 11 Tahun 2008 tentang Informasi dan Transaksi Elektronik. As well as Article 65 paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) in conjunction with Article 115 of Law Number 7 of 2014 concerning Trade. The threat of punishment according to the two articles above is a maximum prison sentence of 12 years and a maximum fine of IDR 12 billion. "Two people have been named as suspects. They are A as a debt collector officer, the victim and G as the leader of the illegal loan," said Director of Special Criminal Investigation at Polda Metro Jaya, Kombes Auliansyah Lubis in a written statement in Jakarta, Antara, Sunday, December 4. Auliansyah explained that during the raid, officers helped secure as many as 40 employees of the illegal online loan company. The raid was carried out on Tuesday, November 29 in Manado, with the help of the North Sulawesi Police. The 40 employees who were detained in the raid are currently still undergoing examination. "The Cyber Sub-Directorate of the Polda Metro Jaya in collaboration with a team from the North Sulawesi Police Cyber Sub-Directorate is still investigating the parties who were secured at the illegal loan office," added the Head of the Sub-Directorate of Cyber Ditreskrimsus Polda Metro Jaya, Commissioner Victor Daniel Henry Inkiriwang. The police will continue to develop the disclosure to dismantle all illegal online loan operations. "Further investigations will be carried out to dismantle the entire illegal online loan operation," he said. The company is known to operate four illegal online loan applications, namely Loans Now, AkuKaya, KamiKaya and EasyGo. This illegal online loan activity is known to have been running for approximately one year with an estimated circulation of billions of rupiah every month. The illegal online loan office also disguised his office as a savings and loan cooperative office so that his whereabouts escaped public scrutiny. The raid on the illegal online loan office began with a report from one of the customers who was terrorized and threatened with his personal data being distributed. The incident began when the reporter borrowed on the Loan Now and AkuKaya applications on October 25, 2022, with a loan tempo of 30 days. Then on the maturity date of the loan on October 21-22, the operators of the two applications sent a WhatsApp message to the reporter containing the personal data of the reporter. Furthermore, on November 23, the reporter again received a WhatsApp message from the Loan Now application, but this time it was in the form of a threat of spreading data in the form of photos of the victim's Identity Card (KTP) and photos of victims from social media to the phone numbers of people registered on the victim's cell phone contact list. For this incident, the victim then reported the incident to the Polda Metro Jaya which was followed by an investigation until finally the raid on the illegal online loan office turned out to be in Manado.