MAKASSAR - The Makassar Police's General Investigation and Criminal Unit (Reskrim) has again named one suspect related to the alleged fraud case under the guise of social gathering and fraudulent investment in Makassar, South Sulawesi.
"There has been an increase of one suspect. So yesterday it was three, now there is one more. Now there are four suspects in total," said Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of Makassar Polrestabes Kompol Jamal Fathur Rakhman, quoted by Antara, Monday, September 27.
According to him, the new suspect with the initials DN (20) is a social media admin for activities of one of the gatherings and investments made online. The suspect is a student who lives in Mamuju, West Sulawesi.
"Yesterday, after attending the summons as a suspect, we detained him at the Makassar Polrestabes Rutan," he said.
In addition, it is known that the suspect is not a student at a university in Makassar, South Sulawesi. Jamal explained that the admin previously held three social gatherings. One social gathering rose 20 per day, one social gathering rose 10 per day, and another gathering for iPhone brand phones.
However, the suspect DN has just become an admin at the fake social gathering. So, a total of four social gatherings, one of which is held by the suspect. For victims, he said, so far dozens of people have reported to the Makassar Police.
"Losses have increased by about hundreds of millions of rupiah. Now it is above Rp. 100 million, but we can't total it because until now we are still waiting for victims who come to report the crime," he explained.
While victims from outside Makassar City, he said, one person from Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi, reported verbally. Losses around Rp. 100 million. Until now, the victim has not wanted to take any information, but has met the suspects.
"We are trying to facilitate, and have a dialogue to discuss the losses suffered by the Kendari victim. However, we do not know exactly because the person concerned does not want to take his statement. Regarding the documentary evidence, the evidence has not been brought," he explained.
Regarding the results of the examination of the program that was involved in promoting the fake social gathering, he said that only three people had undergone the examination and were still waiting for two more.
So a total of five people (selegrams) were summoned and only three people were given their statements. They admitted that they were endorsed (paid to promote) related to the social gathering, he said.
"Because they know this arisan is running and there are no problems and only found out there was a problem when there was a report from one of the arisan members," he said.
Previously, the police exposed fraudulent practices under the guise of arisan and fraudulent online investment named Arisan Amanah after the victims reported the alleged fraud.
"Three perpetrators have been named as suspects, two women with the initials JD, 20 years old, MD, 22 years old, and a man AR 22 years old.
For their respective roles, JD, alias Puput, is the brain and owner of the arisan, while MD is an admin on Instagram social media called 'Arisan Amanah', and AR is JD's girlfriend as the owner of the traffic control account for the disbursement of the arisan money.
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