Victims Of Bodong Arisan Up To IDR 10 Billion Report To The South Sulawesi Police

Lawyer for victim of fraudulent social gathering, Arie Jumais (center) shows a photo of the alleged perpetrator after reporting at the SPKT Polda South Sulawesi, Makassar, Wednesday (13/4/2022). ANTARA/Darwin Fatir.

MAKASSAR - A number of victims of fraudulent social gatherings valued at Rp. 10 billion reported allegations of fraud and money laundering by a woman with the initials SN (27) to the South Sulawesi Police.

"We have come to report the alleged criminal act of fraudulent social gathering. We suspect that the perpetrator is a woman like the one in this photo, the initials SN. The total loss is over Rp. 10 billion," said the victim's lawyer, Arie Jumais after reporting, quoted by Antara, Wednesday, 13 April.

Apart from Makassar, the alleged perpetrators also carried out similar actions in various areas such as in Jakarta, Bandung, Bekasi to Batam.

The method, said Arie, is to give members an initial profit of more than 10 percent so they can attract other people to become members or members.

"The social gathering is in the form of investment. It says buying and selling fake social gatherings, but it turns out that there is no social gathering. For this type of investment, if they participate, they can earn more than 10 percent. There has been a deposit of IDR 800 million," he said, accompanied by eight victims of the fraudulent social gathering.

There are even victims who are willing to pawn their house certificates because they are tempted to get big profits as promised by the alleged perpetrator of SN, who is called his intellectual leader.

"There is a plot, a special team to hook up other victims. Four people, two administrative staff. The operation is almost all over Indonesia. The way it's done, every week there is a disbursement, given up to two times, by transfer. When members increase and have transferred money, The suspect immediately lost contact," he explained.

His party hopes that law enforcement officers will immediately process the client's report to arrest the alleged perpetrators who have deceived many people, and that the client's money can be returned.

The Head of Public Relations of the South Sulawesi Regional Police Kombes Komang Suartana confirmed the police report on the alleged fraud.

However, an initial investigation process is needed to uncover the bodong social gathering case.