Beautiful Celebrity In Aceh Arrested For Promoting Online Gambling Sites

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A celebrity from Aceh with the initials SRC (27), a resident of Nagan Raya Regency, was arrested by the police for promoting online gambling sites and platforms on his Instagram account.

Kapolresta Banda Aceh, Kombes Pol Fahmi Irwan Ramli, explained that the arrests began with reports from residents through WA Curhat Kapolresta Banda Aceh related to the Instagram account of a celebgram from Aceh which promoted online gambling sites.

"From the report, the police conducted an investigation into the Instagram account @srsuci_syam belonging to SRC (27) a resident of Nagan Raya, and from the results of the investigation it was found that SRC was at his home in a gampong in Aceh Besar," said Fahmi, Tuesday, August 29.

SRC was arrested with her husband HF (30) at his home by the Banda Aceh Police Rimueng Team. The police also confiscated a 12 Promax type cellphone, an ATM card and screenshot of an Instagram account used to promote or endorse online gambling. The SRC's social media account has been followed by 174,000 followers.

According to SRC's confession, he was tempted by the admin's offer from Maxgacor. Click and Roboslot's website. As a result of promoting the site, SRC received a bonus of IDR 2.5 million per month. He has been in his business for eight months.

Fahmi said HF found out that his wife had endorsed his personal Instagram account because his photo contained the Maxgacor. Click and Roboslot sites. However, he did not report to the police on the grounds of not knowing that it was an online gambling site. HF admitted that he only knew it was an endorsement of beauty products.

The actions committed by the perpetrators are strongly suspected of violating Article 45 paragraph (2) of Law Number 19 of 2016 Amendments to Law No. 11 of 2008, concerning Information and Electronic Transactions.

"Everyone who intentionally and without rights distributes and/or transmits and/or makes accessible electronic information and/or electronic documents that have gambling content as referred to in Article 27 paragraph (2) shall be punished with imprisonment for a maximum of six years and/or a maximum fine of Rp. 1 billion," he concluded.