Bareskrim Seizes Assets Of Net89 Trading Robot Suspect IDR 1.4 Trillion

Bareskrim Polri confiscated a number of assets resulting from the crime in the Net89 trading robot case worth Rp1.4 trillion. The assets were confiscated from dozens of suspects./PHOTO: Rizky Adytia-VOI

The Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police confiscated a number of assets resulting from the crime in the Net89 trading robot case worth Rp1.4 trillion. The assets were confiscated from dozens of suspects.

"Investigators have succeeded in collecting evidence of approximately Rp. 1.4 trillion," said Director of Special Economic Crimes at the National Police Criminal Investigation Agency Brigadier General Whisnu Hermawan to reporters, Wednesday, August 16.

The confiscated assets were in the form of money tunia, cars, and buildings in various areas. In this case, 14 people were named suspects.

They are Andreas Andreyanto, Lauw Swan Hie Samuel, Erwin Saeful Ibrahim, Reza Shahrani alias Reza Paten, Alwin Aliwarga, Ferdi Iwan, Hanny Suteja, David, DI, IR, AR, YW, MA, and ES.

Of the dozens of suspects, two of them are still fugitives. The two are Andreas Andreyanto and Lauw Swan Hie Samuel who are said to have fled to Cambodia.

"Two perpetrators who are still suspected of being abroad in Cambodia, we have coordinated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, with Hubinter to track down their whereabouts," he said.

Meanwhile, other suspects are said to have been P21. This means that the case file has been declared complete and remains to be transferred to the Prosecutor's Office for immediate trial

"Against the suspects who have P21, we are making efforts to force arrests to be behind this and in the near future we will delegate stage 2 to the Attorney General's Office," said Whisnu.

In this case, the suspects were charged with Article 378 of the Criminal Code and/or Article 372 of the Criminal Code and/or Article 45 paragraph 1 in conjunction with Article 28 and/or Article 34 paragraph 1 in conjunction with Article 50 of Law Number 19 of 2016 concerning Amendments to Law Number 1 of 2008 concerning Electronic Information and Transactions.

In addition, they were also charged with Article 69 paragraph 1 of Law Number 3 of 2011 concerning the Crime of Fund Transfers and or Article 46 of Law Number 10 of 198 concerning Banking.