JAKARTA - A total of 4 perpetrators of fraud selling fake tickets to the Indonesian national team vs the Argentine national team football match were arrested by the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Tanah Abang Metro Police on Monday, June 19.

Tanah Abang Police Chief Kompol Patar Mula Bona said the four suspected perpetrators were arrested on Sunday night, June 18. The four consisted of 3 men and 1 woman.

"Yes (secured 4 people) at approximately 19.00 WIB at Gelora Bung Karno (GBK). Meanwhile, the alleged perpetrator and his colleague were 4 people, 3 men 1 woman," said Kompol Bona when confirmed, Monday, June 19, afternoon.

The police confiscated a number of evidences of hundreds of fake tickets, original tickets, a laptop, a cell phone unit and tens of millions of rupiah.

"One of them is a print out link, cellphone, then the fake ticket has been sold 70, then there is a hologram, the hologram is around 7000 more holograms, the fake ticket that we secure is approximately 150, then also a laptop to design and also the total money is Rp. 73 million," he said.

The mode used, he continued, was that the perpetrators promoted ticket sales through social media.

"The perpetrators marketed it on social media on Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp. So they bought the original first, they uploaded the original PDF link on social media," he said.


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