Instead of the Padel Tennis Business, a 26-year-old Woman Took Away Rp300 Million in Victim's Money

Illustration of a woman with a padel racket/ Photo: Freepik

Grogol Petamburan, West Jakarta - A woman in Grogol Petamburan, West Jakarta, named Lenny became a victim of an online scam for the padel racket business with a total loss of IDR 300 million.

According to the Head of the Criminal Investigation Unit (Kanit Reskrim) of the Grogol Petamburan Police, AKP Alexander Tengbunan, according to the direction of the Grogol Petamburan Police Chief, AKP Reza Aditya, he and his members flew to Langkat (North Sumatra) and arrested the perpetrator.

"The perpetrator is a woman with the initials FR, 26 years old. We arrested him on Saturday, March 7, 2026 yesterday," he said in Jakarta, Wednesday.

Reza also said that when he was taken to the police station and interrogated, it turned out that FR only kept Lenny's money.

Alex said that FR's husband was suspected of being the mastermind of the fraud and had been in a correctional institution (prison) related to drug cases.

"The perpetrator's husband is a drug case and has been in prison for a long time. There he met an online fraud group," he said.

However, the victim chose the family path after the FR intended to return the money for the fraud action of Rp300 million.

This case was then settled with the "restorative justice" (RJ) track after the victim got back his money from the perpetrator.

"This victim prefers to return the money. At that time it was immediately peaceful, offered 'do you want to make peace with this? If you want, please transfer it', it was over there," he said.

In this case, the perpetrator used the modus operandi of pretending to introduce himself as Lenny's old friend and then contacted him via WhatsApp message (WA) to offer business cooperation to sell padel rackets.

The perpetrator had mentioned the initials GJ in his explanation and admitted that he had been friends with Lenny for more than 20 years.

The discussion lasted quite a long time until the perpetrator asked Lenny for help to become a "middleman" (intermediary) for the business.

After that, Lenny was asked to coordinate the transaction that would be carried out and asked for the transfer of hundreds of millions from Lenny.

Without any unknown reason, the victim transferred Rp. 300 million. After the money disappeared, Lenny suddenly realized that he had become a victim of fraud. He immediately reported the incident to the Grogol Petamburan Police.

Based on the police's investigation and tracking, the perpetrator who initially claimed to be in North Jakarta was actually in Langkat (North Sumatra).