BANTEN - Banten Regional Police Chief Inspector General Rudy Heriyanto paid full attention to the problem of gambling in the Banten area by issuing a firm order last July 30 to officials of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Regional Police and the Regional Police to eradicate all forms of gambling. How much was revealed?
In line with this order, the Ditreskrimum of the Banten Police immediately responded by opening a Gambling Eradication Command Post. And so far the Banten Police have managed to uncover 39 gambling cases with 89 suspects.
Number of Gambling Cases
Based on the information received by VOI, Thursday, August 25, the Banten Police again revealed 29 gambling cases and 65 suspects, both carried out by the Ditreskrimum of the Banten Police and the ranks of the Resort Police.
Of the 29 revealed gambling cases, the most disclosures came from the Serang City Police with a total of 13 cases, the Sub-Directorate of Resmob Ditreskrimum of the Banten Police, 5 cases, the Tangerang Police with 4 cases, the Serang-Lebak and Cilegon Police each with 2 cases and the Pandenglang Police with 1 case.
Of the types of gambling, the most that were revealed were online gambling, 19 cases with 39 suspects, conventional lottery gambling 4 cases with 9 suspects, card gambling 4 cases with 9 suspects, and cockfighting 2 cases with 7 suspects.
Of the 65 suspects who have been arrested, the dominant men are men, but there is 1 woman who is also involved in the gambling syndicate, the initials RM alias Ningsih (26) who turned out to have a significant role.
The dominant suspects were arrested by the Banten Police as many as 15 people, Serang City Police 17, Tangerang Police 10, Cilegon Police 8, Serang Police 6, Lebak Polres 5 and Pandeglang Police 4 people.
Online Gambling Camouflage
From the disclosures made by the Diterskrimum of the Banten Police, after being analyzed, new things that were not uncommon with other online gambling were found, namely:
Online gambling is camouflaged by using an advertising service company in the form of a limited liability company, namely PT. Business Variety Media and PT. Patriot Siber Perkasa, the initial office address was at Ruko Perum Citra Raya, Panongan but after the arrest of online gambling at the shop, this online gambling syndicate shifted its operational location to housing in the Taman Puspa Complex of Perum Citra Raya Cikupa and Modern Land Apartment Tangerang City.
The company opened 50 websites which turned out to be used not for advertising service promotions but for various online gambling slots.
Ningsih's Role as Commissioner
RM alias Ningsih (26) is a commissioner at the company, acting as a treasurer who collects daily deposits from the leaders who manage the 50 websites
Not only Ningsih, officers have also arrested 2 other leaders with evidence of cash worth almost Rp1 billion
Mobile Phone Usage
Online gambling operations have even shifted from using computers or laptops to mobile phone devices so that they are more practical and perpetrators feel safer from the monitoring of field officers.
From the disclosure of these 29 gambling cases, investigators managed to confiscate Rp947,585,500, the most from the online gambling syndicate RM under the guise of an advertising company, amounting to Rp931 million. At the same time, investigators also confiscated several other pieces of evidence, namely:
- 59 units of mobile phones of various brands and 1 tablet - 7 units of motorbikes - 3 units of laptops and 12 units of PCs - 6 savings books, 1 ATM card and 6 BCA keys - 1 wifi/modem device - 4 chickens (gambling fighting) - 6 sets playing cards, 2 sets of gaple cards (conventional gambling)- 24 recap coupons (togel)
Sites Used
Furthermore, the Banten Police have identified 71 online gambling sites from the disclosure of these 29 cases and will immediately coordinate also send a letter to the Ministry of Communication and Information to block these online gambling websites, namely ALL TOGEL, ELANG GAME, NAGA 66, PANEN 55, ELANG 189, DANA 189, RADEN 99, DELTA TOEL, JITU PAITO, SYDNEY TOGEL, HONGKONG TOGEL, SINGAPORE TOGEL, TOGEL NADIM, TOGEL CIGARETTE BET, ABU TOGEL, SELEB TOTO, ENTER TOGEL, WAK TOGEL, BATIK POKER, PAKLUONG POKER, APP KING. COM
Penalty Sanctions
The suspects will be subject to Article 303 of the Criminal Code on Gambling and threatened with a maximum imprisonment of 10 years.
Against the RM alias Ningsih gambling syndicate, the Banten Police Ditreskrimum investigator will add a suspicion of a money laundering crime article with the fact that quite a large amount of money has been confiscated from gambling crimes.
Meanwhile, Banten Police Chief Inspector General Rudy Heriyanto appreciated the active participation of the community together in eradicating all forms of gambling with the Banten Police and again motivated the public not to hesitate to convey the slightest information about gambling to the Banten Police Ditreskrimum Gambling Command Post.
The Kapolda also remains consistent with eradicating gambling in the Banten area and continues to order Criminal Investigation Officers at the Polda and Polres ranks to continue to take action and disclose.
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