Doni Salmanan, From A Daily Worker To Having Billions Of Assets And Ends As A Suspect

JAKARTA - The Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police continues to investigate the online gambling case under the guise of Quotex trading which named Doni Muhammad Taufik as a suspect.

Some new facts began to be obtained. For example, the profession of Doni Salmanan, who has been a casual daily worker, has transformed into an affiliate with billions of assets.

Director of Cyber Crime, Bareskrim Polri Brigadier General Asep Edi Suheri said Doni Salmanan's professional background was known based on his residence document or identity card (KTP). He is listed as a casual daily worker.

"His job is that according to the ID card here, it is listed as a casual daily worker with the address Candra Asih Street, Kota Baru Parahyangan Housing," Asep told reporters, Tuesday, March 15.

With that profession, it can be said that Doni had a simple life. However, everything changed when he became an affiliate.

Doni has been an affiliate since 2021. He started sharing content related to trading applications on his social media.

The contents also aim to attract the public's interest to become a member or member of Quotex.

"In the beginning, starting from 2021 until yesterday, it has been 1 year (becoming an affiliate, ed)," said Asep.

With his work as an affiliate, Doni's life changed. He became someone who has abundant wealth and is even known as Crazy Rich Bandung.

Doni's wealth was obtained from the defeat of the Quotex members. Because, as an affiliate Doni gets a share of 80 percent.

"That is, if the trader loses, 80 percent of the profits it will go to the DS. The rest goes to the organizers. If the trader wins, the DS's gain 20 percent," said Asep.

In fact, for the time being, Doni Salmanan's assets reached IDR 64 billion. The amount is based on a series of assets that have been confiscated in the Quotex case.

"The total estimated value of the evidence that was successfully confiscated is approximately IDR 64 billion," said Asep

Some of the assets that have been confiscated from Doni Salmanan are Porsche 911 Carerra 4S, Lamborgini and BMW. Then, eight big motorbikes (MOGE) of various brands.

There are also assets in the form of two houses in the Bandung area, West Java. In fact, investigators also confiscated Doni Salmanan's cash amounting to IDR 3.3 billion.

"Cash is currently IDR 3.3 billion," said Asep.

For information, in this case Doni Salmanan is suspected of Article 45 paragraph 1 junto 28 paragraph 1 of the ITE Law, Article 378 of the Criminal Code, and Article 3 of the Republic of Indonesia Law number 8 of 2010 concerning the Eradication of Money Laundering.

With this layered article, Doni Salmanan is threatened with 20 years of criminal sanctions