Bareskrim Will Check Official Coldplay Ticket Sellers, This Is What Is Being Investigated

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The Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police will ask for information from the official seller for tickets to the Coldplay Band concert. This step was taken to investigate the fraud case of selling tickets to the British band.

"We will invite the official ticket sales service provider to get information," said Karo Penmas, Police Public Relations Division, Brigadier General Ahmad Ramandhan, to reporters, Monday, May 22.

During the examination later, Bareskrim will explore several things. One of them is about the mechanism for selling Coldplay band tickets.

"To what extent is the official ticket sales procedure. Because the official ticket sales service provider has a responsibility in terms of socialization to buyers," he said.

On the other hand, the National Police also appealed to all people who are victims of fraud to report immediately. Thus, the crime can be thoroughly investigated immediately.

"We urge that if there are people who become victims, they can immediately receive official reports so that they can be handled optimally," said Ramadhan.

So far, only one report has been received by Bareskrim Polri. The report is registered with the number LP/B/106/V/2023/SPKT/Bareskrim Polri, dated May 19, 2023.

The reporting party is Zainul Arifin. He is the legal representative of 14 victims who are in the Jabodetabek area. They lost Rp. 30 million.

"We went to Bareskrim to report or provide information on making police reports related to criminal incidents of alleged fraud through electronic media, in this case the sale of Coldplay group music concert tickets," said Zainul.

According to him, the perpetrators of ticket sales fraud are suspected to be syndicates involving individuals in several promoters.

"Because why not a few seconds later? War (war fight over) the ticket was opened, it was immediately closed (closed). Therefore, we suspect maybe there are people who are in it playing," he said.

Zainul said the pattern of fraudulent music concert ticket sales was not the first time this had happened. A number of victims have also been deceived by similar patterns at the vocal group concert from South Korea BLACKPING as well as the MotoGP championship event in Mandalika.

He explained that the chronology of the fraud pattern was when prospective buyers waited for ticket sales to open, the online sales page immediately ran out. In addition, all access to official ticket purchases is difficult to access, so the victim looks for a way by accessing through social media.

From the social media, there was a conversation about ticket sales. Then, the conversation of the victim was moved to an online chat group. From there there are transactions that provoke each other to support each other, even though they are part of a syndicate.

"Therefore, such patterns must be traced by the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Police so that this legal event can be clear," he explained.

Zainul said one of the victims who was his client bought a ticket through someone on Twitter social media.

The victim has transferred Rp9 million for one ticket. However, until now the ticket has not been obtained, while the person selling the ticket cannot be contacted.