Polda Metro Arrests Couples Fraudsters Sell Coldplay Tickets Via Twitter

Director of Special Criminal Investigation of Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Auliansyah Lubis at Polda Metro Jaya (Rizky AP/VOI)

JAKARTA - Polda Metro Jaya arrested a husband and wife who were the perpetrators of fraudulent sales of Coldplay band concert tickets. In their action, they used the @fintrove_id account with a deposit service mode.

"Through the investigation and developments of the results of the investigation, we have arrested two people, of which they are committing fraud against the public regarding the sale of Coldplay tickets," said Director of Special Criminal Investigation of the Metro Jaya Police Kombes Auliansyah Lubis to reporters, Monday, May 22.

The two suspects are a married couple with the initials ABF and W. They were arrested in the Bantul area, Yogyakarta.

The husband and wife use the Twitter account @fintrove_id they bought from someone. Of course, taking into account a large number of followers.

"Then from this website ( Twitter account) they opened or opened a script war ticket for Coldplay music of the spheres in Jakarta, which on Twitter they also said that it was as if this website ( Twitter account) had sold various previous concert tickets, and succeeded," he said.

From the results of the temporary investigation, the two suspects managed to deceive dozens of people. In fact, from his crime, this husband and wife made hundreds of millions of profits.

"As for the victims who reported to our place, there were approximately 60 people and we traced those in their savings to Rp257 million. This is for the results of a temporary investigation," said Auliansyah.

In this case, both of them were charged with Article 28 paragraph 1 in conjunction with Article 45 paragraph 1 of Law Number 19 of 2016 concerning amendments to Law Number 11 of 2008 concerning Electronic Information and Transactions.

Then Article 378 of the Criminal Code, Article 372 of the Criminal Code, Article 3 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the prevention and eradication of the crime of money laundering or money laundering, and or Article 4 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning Money Laundering, and Article 5 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning Money Laundering.