Bareskrim Polri Dismantles TIP Syndicate In Middle-Time Work Mode In 4 Countries

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JAKARTA - The Directorate of Cyber Crime, Bareskrim Polri, dismantled a syndicate of people trafficking crimes or international network TIPs. Syndicate uses the mode of offering job vacancies for part-time.

"Disclosure of international network online scam cases with part-time job vacancies mode," said Director of Cyber Crime at the National Police Criminal Investigation Agency Brigadier General Himawan Bayu Aji to reporters, Tuesday, July 16.

In carrying out their actions, this syndicate launched its action by offering job vacancies for part-time through social media. In addition, they often act in four countries.

"It is offered through several online media platforms such as telegram and whatsapp which contain website login links related to tasks that will be carried out that are detrimental to several countries, namely Indonesia, Thailand, India and China," he said.

From the disclosure, there were four people named as suspects. They have the initials ZS, M, H, and NSS.

The disclosure of this case began with the arrest of the suspect NSS in August 2023. Then, when investigated, there were still other parties in Abu Dabi who arranged the operation of this syndicate with the initials ZS.

"The suspects operate outside the territory of Indonesia, so investigators submit a red notice application to Interpol through the NCB Interpol Divhubinter Polri and a red notice has been issued against the suspect with the initials ZS alias Colby on December 1, 2023," he said.

Tim melakukan penangkapan dan diketahui ZS, warga negara China itu, merupakan ketua kelompok scam.

From the examination, it was found that the suspects employed 17 Indonesian citizens, 10 Thai nationals, 21 Chinese nationals, and 20 Indian nationals.

"The suspect ZS employs the NSS suspect who is an interpreter to explain to Indonesian citizens how to operate a part-time job scam," said Himawan.

The team then carried out further developments until they arrested two other suspects, namely M and H.

Untuk M yang berperan sebagai penyeluran warga negara Indonesia untuk bekerja melakukan scam pekerjaan parti waktu. Sementara tersangka H merupakan operator scam pekerjaan parti waktu.

A total of 823 Indonesian citizens have been victims of TIP from 2022 to 20224. They were initially offered as computer operators by the suspect," he said

The network also operates in India, China and Thailand with a total loss from the three countries of IDR 1.5 trillion. Specifically for Indonesia, it suffered a loss of IDR 59 billion.

In this case, the suspects were charged with Article 45A paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 28 paragraph (1) and/or Article 51 paragraph (2) in conjunction with Article 36 of Law Number 19 of 2016 concerning Amendments to Law Number 11 of 2008 concerning Information and Electronic Transactions and/or Article 378 of the Criminal Code and/or Article 4 of Law Number 21 of 2007 concerning Eradication of the Crime of Trafficking in Persons and/or Article 81 in conjunction with Article 69 of Law Number 18 of 2017 concerning Protection of Indonesian Migration Workers