BANDAR LAMPUNG - Minister of Immigration and Corrections (Imipas) Agus Andrianto instructed the Director General of Corrections to conduct a thorough examination of inmates related to financial fraud cases using dating or love scamming applications.
"Regarding the love scamming case involving inmates at the State Rehabilitation Center (Rutan) Class II B Kotabumi, Lampung. We have instructed the Director General of Corrections to investigate this modus operandi to all WB in prisons and in prisons," he said in Bandarlampung, quoted by Antara, Tuesday, May 12.
He also emphasized that if there were indeed indications that inmates or officers were involved in this case, they would immediately be sanctioned in accordance with the applicable rules.
"Seeing the modus operandi, namely through the use of social media and video calls, we conducted a check on the mobile phone allegedly owned by the inmates. This is in accordance with the zero mobile phone, illegal levies, and drugs programs that have been established," he said.
Agus also committed to continue to eradicate the love scamming modus involving inmates and officers from within the correctional environment.
"Therefore, in the case of love scamming at the Kotabumi Detention Center, we ask that a thorough investigation be conducted and if it involves officers, they should be dealt with firmly," he said.
The Head of the Lampung Police, Inspector General of Police Helfi Assegaf, stated that his party had conducted a check on the ownership of a mobile phone at the Kotabumi Detention Center as a follow-up to a report of love scamming with the modus operandi of extortion against the victim with a loss of around IDR 1.4 billion.
"Currently we are still asking for information from the victim to collect other evidence. We urge the public to be careful in interacting on social media, especially with strangers, so that cases like this do not happen again," he said.
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