Komdigi Online Gambling Case, Police Confiscate IDR 73 Billion To 215.5 Grams Of Gold

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JAKARTA - Polda Metro Jaya confiscated a number of evidences from dozens of online gambling suspects involving employees of the Ministry of Communication and Digital or Komdigi. One of them is around Rp73 billion in cash.

"(Confiscated) IDR 73,723,488,957 in cash," said Head of Public Relations of Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Ade Ary Syam Indradi to reporters, Thursday, November 7.

The tens of billions of money is the total of several foreign currencies confiscated from the suspects.

In detail, rupiah money amounted to Rp35,792,110,000 billion, 2,955,779 Singapore dollars or Rp35,043,272,475 (Rp35 billion).

Then, 183,500 US dollars, which when converted to rupiah is Rp2,888,106,500 or Rp2.8 billion.

Not only cash, investigators also confiscated several other pieces of evidence, such as two-wheeled and four-wheeled vehicles to precious metals weighing 215.5 grams.

"34 cellphones were confiscated, then 23 laptops, 20 paintings, 16 cars, 16 monitors, 11 luxury watches, 4 tablets, 4 buildings, 2 units of firearms, one motorbike," said Ade.

For information, in the Komdigi online gambling case as a whole, 15 people have been named as suspects.

Dozens of people named as suspects, consisting of 11 Komdigi employees and four civilians.

Three of them are controllers of the'satellite office' used to condition online gambling sites. The location of the satellite office is in Ruko Galaxy, South Bekasi.

The controllers of the satellite office had the initials A, AK, and AJ. Now, the police are also putting the names of two suspects on the wanted list (DPO), namely A and M.