JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs (Menko Polkam) Budi Gunawan ensured that his party would not be indiscriminate in uncovering online gambling cases involving unscrupulous employees of the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Kemendigi).

"Everything has no tolerance and we believe it is because the President has ordered that everything will be processed," said Budi Gunawan as quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, November 14.

According to the man who is familiarly called BG, the National Police is currently conducting an investigation to find out the involvement of other parties in the vortex of the online gambling case.

He ensured that he would not allow the Police to intervene by any party in investigating the case.

Regarding the spotlight on the former Minister of Communication and Information Budi Arie Setyadi in the vortex of online gambling cases, BG confirmed that there was no such evidence.

"Ya belum arah ke sana secara terbuka yang disampaikan Polri, kita saja menunggu seperti apa," kata dia.

Polda Metro Jaya has so far named 18 suspects in the online gambling case which also involves unscrupulous members of the Ministry of Komdigi.

"So far, 18 people have been named as suspects," said Head of Public Relations of Polda Metro Jaya, Kombes Ade Ary Syam Indradi.

Ade Ary detailed the 18 people, namely 10 Komdigi employees and eight civilians.

Meanwhile, the two people who were arrested on Sunday (10/11) night were not from Komdigi.

"The two people arrested last night were civilians," he said.

However, Ade Ary has not been able to describe the details regarding the arrest, he explained that he will be conveyed if there are further developments.

Previously, the Directorate of General Criminal Investigation (Direskrimum) of the Polda Metro Jaya, managed to confiscate evidence worth more than Rp2.8 billion from the two perpetrators of the judol gambling case.

"The investigative team managed to secure, among others, Rp. 300 million in cash and money stored in an account worth Rp. 2.8 billion," said Director of Criminal Investigation of Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Wira Satya Triputra at a press conference in Tangerang, Sunday (10/11) night.

He revealed, of the total evidence that was successfully carried out by the security, it consisted of cash amounting to Rp. 300 million and Rp. 2.8 billion which was stored in the perpetrator's account.

He said the evidence of the money confiscated was the result of the arrest of the two people, namely the initials MN and DM.

From the results of the examination of the two suspects, they are people who have a central role in online gambling cases in Indonesia.

He explained that the MN perpetrators were people who deposited money and deposited a gambling website list so that it could be protected by Komdigi employees.

Meanwhile, for the suspect DM, he acts as an assistant to the crime of MN perpetrators, including accommodating the proceeds of the crime.


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