The Prosecutor's Team Has 7 Days To Examine The Completeness Of Doni Salmanan's Case Files From The Criminal Investigation Department

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JAKARTA - The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has received the transfer of case files (phase I) of Doni Salmanan, a suspect in the alleged crime of fake news and money laundering through the Quotex application.

"The Deputy Attorney General for General Crimes has received the delegation of the case file for Phase I from the National Police Criminal Investigation Unit for suspect DS which was sent on Tuesday (19/4) yesterday," said the Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) at the Attorney General's Office, Ketut Sumedana, in a written statement received in Jakarta, Wednesday, April 20, quoted from Antara.

The suspect Doni Salamanan is suspected of violating Article 28 paragraph (1) of Law Number 19 of 2016 concerning Amendments to Law Number 11 of 2008 concerning Information and Electronic Transactions (ITE) and Article 3 and/or Article 4 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Prevention and Eradication of Money Laundering.

After receiving the case file, he continued, the next stage would be to conduct research by the appointed Research Prosecutor (Prosecutor P-16) within a period of seven days, to determine whether the case file can be declared complete or not formally or materially (P-18).

"And the research prosecutor has seven days to give instructions (P-19) if the case file is not complete," he added.

Previously, investigators from the Directorate of Cyber Crimes (Dittipidsiber) of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Indonesian National Police transferred the case files of Phase I of the false and misleading news case through the Quotex application with the suspect Doni Muhammad Taufik (DMT) alias Doni Salmanan (DS) to the Attorney General's Office.

Head of the Public Information Section (Kabagpenum) of the Public Relations Division of the National Police, Commissioner-Police Gatot Repli Handoko said investigators conducted an intensive investigation for other possible suspects who were suspected to be related to Doni Salmanan, by examining at least 64 witnesses and 10 expert witnesses.

"Against other suspects suspected of being related to the suspect DMT alias DS, an intensive investigation is being carried out," said Gatot in Jakarta, Monday (18/4).

Meanwhile, in the latest development, the evidence confiscated in this case was a Dior brand men's handbag from Atta Halilitar on March 17, cash worth IDR 10 million from Rizky Billar on March 22, and IDR 1 billion in cash from suspect Doni Salmanan on March 25. March. Then, investigators also confiscated money worth IDR 750 million and IDR 300 million from the West Java Quick Response community on March 25 and from Reza "Arap" Oktovian worth IDR 950 million on March 28.

Investigators have not yet detailed the provisional nominal value of the assets seized from the Doni Salmanan case, including assets in the form of buildings, land, and luxury vehicles.

On Tuesday (15/3), investigators confiscated a number of assets of the man who claimed to be crazy rich from Bandung related to money laundering (TPPU) from fraud through the Quotex application. The temporary nominal value of Doni Salmanan, who was confiscated by the police reached IDR 64 billion and also cash worth IDR 3.3 billion.

Some of Doni Salmanan's assets that were confiscated were two housing units, two plots of land with an area of 500 square meters and 400 square meters, 18 units of two-wheeled vehicles of various brands, six four-wheeled vehicles, two of which were Porsche and Lamborghini brands.

Investigators also confiscated four Gmail and social media accounts belonging to Doni Salmanan, namely King Salmanan's YouTube account and three email accounts connected to the Quotex application.