Jakarta – The Directorate of Economic and Special Crimes (Dittipideksus) of the Criminal Investigation Unit at the National Police Headquarters succeeded in dismantling an illegal online loan syndicate (pinjol). A total of eight perpetrators were arrested, while two foreign nationals (WNA) are still being hunted and have been banned from leaving Indonesia.
“There are several suspects who are still being pursued, foreigners. We have blocked this and sent DPOs to these two people,” said the Director of the Tipideksus Bareskrim Polri, Brigadier General Helmy Santika in a virtual press conference, Thursday (29/7/2021).
Helmy said that the suspects came from the Loan Damai KSP loan. In their operation they collect debts by slandering customers as drug dealers who are on the wanted list.
“They make messages, writings that may be defamatory in nature. For example, it is made as if the borrower is a methamphetamine dealer, a drug dealer,” said Helmy.
“Then I’m sorry, if she’s a woman, it’s cropped, pasted with indecent ones, and others,” he continued.
Helmy said that the arrests of the eight pinjol perpetrators were carried out in different places. Two perpetrators were arrested in Medan, North Sumatra, with the initials Dea and Andre, both of whom are debt collectors who work for KSP Cinta Damai.
A perpetrator named Christopher was arrested in South Tangerang who played the role of giving orders to debt collectors to collect debts from borrowers by means of threatening, defaming and slandering through chain messages.
Next, five perpetrators, namely Elroy, Benedictus, Alfonsius, Sidharta, and Rizky were arrested in West Jakarta as mobile phone SIM card operators.
During the arrest, the police secured several pieces of evidence, including thousands of SIM cards, a modem pool for sending SMS blasting, cell phones, and laptops that functioned to see the flow of communication transactions from the perpetrators.
Helmy promised to continue to investigate the network of illegal lenders who slandered his customers as drug dealers. Only, said Helmy, the perpetrators who have not been caught could make other new applications that need to be watched out for.
“We will continue to investigate these networks. However, we need to say that there are a few obstacles, because this is the nature of using technology. Once it has been taken down by the OJK Investment Alert Task Force, in a short time he will be able to make a new one,” he added.
The modus operandi of the KSP application, which is under the Fast Funds and New Borrowing online loan application, will offer money loans online with the lure of long tenors and low interest rates.
However, the fact is that the promised tenor and interest rate do not match what is offered on the front page of the Cinta Damai Savings and Loans Cooperative (KSP) application.
“The perpetrators of the Cinta Damai KSP are affiliated with other KSPs, namely the Green Living KSP, Pocket Tour KSP, Happy Island KSP, and several other online loan applications,” said Helmy.
For his actions, the suspects were charged with Article 45 Paragraph 3 of the ITE Law, Law Number 8 of 1999 concerning Consumer Protection, and Article 311 of the Criminal Code. They face up to 5 years in prison.
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