The Directorate of General Criminal Investigation (Ditreskrimum) of the Riau Islands Police (Kepri) raided a room in an apartment in Batam City which is a place to operate online gambling sites with turnover per month reaching billions of rupiah.
"So there are two rooms on two different floors where gambling activities have been running for seven months," said Riau Islands Police Chief Inspector General Yan Fitri Halimansyah at Aston apartment, Batam City, as reported by ANTARA, Friday, November 22.
There were 11 people who were arrested in the raid, one person with the status of the owner or owner of the three online gambling stations, and nine other people were workers who were paid Rp. 5 million per month.
In this online gambling practice, he said, the workers who came from outside the Riau Islands were employed in the apartment room without being allowed out of the room.
"All food and drinks until their needs are supplied by the suspect with the initials CW," he said.
The CW suspect, he said, had a relative relationship with the online gambling suspect who was arrested by the Barelang Police on Tuesday (13/11) with the initials AL.
According to Yan, gambling is usually operated in housing, now it has shifted to a more privacy apartment.
Director of General Criminal Investigation (Direskrimum) of the Riau Islands Police, Kombes Pol. Dony Alexander said, for the first time gambling cases were revealed in apartments in Batam City.
His party continues to increase vigilance and sniff out online gambling activities in Batam City, to support the President's Astacita program.
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The three online gambling sites operated by the suspects purchased sites from Cambodia and operated in Batam.
The three sites have 5,000 followers, each one day transaction charges Rp50 thousand.
"If one day it is Rp. 50,000, with a total of 5,000 followers, approximately per month there can be billions of transactions for the three sites," he said.
The three intended sites are bald, hamsawin and forwin87.
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