National Police Chief Listyo Sigit: Thousands Of Judicial Cases Unloaded During 2022, 906 Accounts Blocked

National Police Chief General Pol Listyo Sigit Prabowo. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo said he had revealed 3,432 gambling cases during 2022. In fact, 906 accounts related to gambling crimes were blocked. "Conventional gambling cases, we uncovered 2,378 cases, this has increased by 448 cases or 23.2 percent compared to 2021," said Sigit in an online release on Saturday, December 31. For online gambling, the National Police managed to uncover 1,154 cases this year. When compared with the previous increase of 575 cases or 99.3 percent of which was only 579 cases. from the series of disclosures of online gambling cases, five suspects who fled to five neighboring countries namely Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines have now been arrested. All suspects who fled abroad have been brought back to Indonesia for legal proceedings, "he said. From the series of disclosures, hundreds of accounts related to gambling have been blocked. Then we frozen 906 gambling accounts together with the Ministry of Communication and Information, as well as blocking 436 gambling websites, "said Sigit.