Having No Money, Men In Bali Write Down Names Of Police Officials To Cheat

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JAKARTA - The Bali Police's Special Criminal Investigation Directorate (Ditreskrimsus) arrested a man named Stevanus Abraham Antonie (43) for using the names of several Police officials to commit online fraud.

"The perpetrator has committed fraud several times by claiming to be Police officers, including Dirkrimsus Polda Sulsel, Dirkrimsus Polda Sulbar, Dirkrimsus Polda Kalteng, Dirkrimsus Polda Kalsel, Dirkrimsus Polda Kaltim, Dirkrimsus Polda Sumsel, Dirkrimsus Polda Riau, and several others." said Dirreskrimsus Polda Bali Kombes Yuliar Kus Nugroho in a press statement in Denpasar, reported by Antara, Thursday, December 24.

He said the perpetrator had committed a criminal act knowingly and without the right to spread false and misleading news that resulted in consumer losses in Electronic Transactions and / or Fraud Crime by pretending to be a National Police official.

In this case the perpetrator was accused by Article 28 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 45A paragraph (1) of Law No. 19 of 2016 concerning amendments to Law No. 11 of 2008 concerning Information and Electronic Transactions (ITE) and / or Article 378 of the Criminal Code.

The incident began when the victim named Wisma Bharuna reported being fraudulent via the WhatsApp message.

The perpetrator contacted the victim and claimed to be the Director of Criminal Investigation and Criminal Procedure at the National Police, then asked the victim to help with operational costs and send it to a Bank Mandiri account in Rehana's name. Then, on December 1, the victim sent Rp. 500 thousand to the account provided by the perpetrator.

"From the results of the investigation that on December 23 at around 11:00 a.m., the police officer came to the address of the account owner. Then met the owner of the account, after being interrogated it was true that the person concerned was the owner of an account named Rehana which was opened on 28 September 2020 upon request. from the perpetrator, "explained Yuliar

Yuliar continued, from the account owner's recognition that later through that account the perpetrator could receive money transfers to purchase the goods he needed.

However, as the owner of the Rehana account, he admitted that he did not know that money had entered the account on December 1, 2020, amounting to Rp. 500 thousand.

Based on the results of the investigation, the perpetrator was immediately arrested and admitted to having committed fraud against the victim by pretending to be the Director of Tipidter for Criminal Investigation at the National Police by preparing a whats app account and changing the profile photo of the Director of Tipidter for Bareskrim Polri.

"The perpetrator admitted that he wanted to apologize profusely to the victims who had suffered material losses and also to the Director of the Dirtipidter of the Criminal Investigation Police for defaming him," said Yuliar.