Full timeline of Winda Earl’s 20 billion IDR savings in Maybank disappearing

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – A PT Bank Maybank Indonesia Tbk (Maybank Indonesia) customer named Winda Lunardi aka Winda Earl admitted that she lost her IDR 20 billion savings.

Winda then reported to the police the case of the loss of 20 billion rupees in her and her mother’s account. The victim presented the report to the police and was registered under number LP / B / 0239 / V / 2020 / Bareskrim on May 8, 2020.

Maybank Indonesia itself wants to solve the problem in court. The famous lawyer Hotman Paris was appointed a lawyer for the Malaysian bank.

The case of Winda Earl’s loss of money was only revealed to the public when Winda visited the Criminal Investigation Building of the National Police to learn the progress of the investigation of the case of alleged banking crimes that happened to her and her mother, Floletta. .

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News summary Tribunnews, On Monday (9/11/2020), the case of the disappearance of saved money belonging to eSport athletes started when the victim arrived at Maybank Indonesia in Cipulir, South Jakarta.

Winda was offered by the perpetrator with the initials A, who is also the head of the branch, to open a deposit in the form of a time account. The victim is tempted because the deposit interest offered by actor A is relatively high compared to bank savings products in general.

Winda Earl then deposited money worth Rs 20 billion, the details of an account in her name of Rs 15 billion, and a second account in her mother Floretta’s name of Rs 5 billion.

It was later discovered that Perpetrator A did not actually create a term account as promised at Maybank. The suspect falsified all the data to make the victim believe that he had already opened a fixed bank account.

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Subsequently, the victim’s money was withdrawn without the victim’s knowledge and permission. The perpetrator then transferred the victim’s money to his fellow suspects and later wired it in hopes of making a profit.

The victim herself only learned that the perpetrator had used her money when she discovered that only Rp600,000 was left in her account. Meanwhile, the mother’s account only left 17 million rupees.

Knowing something was wrong, Winda then reported it to the bank. However, the victim assessed that the bank’s response was not considered to be in good faith. He then reported the case of the loss of the savings account to Bareskrim Polri in May 2020.

The police themselves later named A as a suspect and she was immediately detained for examination by investigators. Some of the perpetrators’ assets were also confiscated.

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Then, the National Police Headquarters carried out an investigation into the flow of funds from the suspect’s account in relation to the proceeds of his crime. It was later discovered that the perpetrator was apparently also facing a similar case handled at Polda Metro Jaya.

Meanwhile, Maybank Indonesia’s lawyer, Hotman Paris, said that the case of Winda Earl’s disappearance of savings was not a case of embezzlement of funds from common clients.

Quoted from his personal Instagram account @hotmanparisofficial, Hotman said that this case had actually been rolling since May 2020.

“I replied, I have been a lawyer for Maybank for many years. The alleged theft of this account is an old case that is being investigated by the National Police Headquarters since May 2020,” said Hotman.

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Hotman continued, this case is somewhat complicated. There are many issues in the case of loss of client funds that are not widely known to the public.

This is also the reason why Maybank Indonesia has the courage to take its solution to court. The case you are handling does not only concern the alleged theft.

“This case is not as simple as suspected. There are things you do not know, not just an alleged robbery. We will await the decision of the authorities,” said Hotman.

In his official statement, Maybank Chairman and Director Taswin Zakaria stated that his party had indeed carried out a related investigation. In fact, he admitted that the complaint to the police was carried out by the company.

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“Maybank is also a reporter here, asking for legal protection and investigating the possible involvement of parties other than internal ones. First follow and respect the ongoing process,” Taswin said.

In this regard, the Financial Services Authority (OJK) plans to evaluate the internal supervisory system of PT Bank Maybank Indonesia Tbk (BNII) with regard to embezzlement of customer money by Maybank employees.

“OJK supervisors will evaluate the bank’s internal supervision system so that in the future the bank can prevent fraud by unscrupulous banks,” OJK Deputy Commissioner for Public Relations and Logistics Anto Prabowo was quoted as saying. Kontan.co.id.

Anto appealed to Maybank to immediately launch an investigation into this case. Because from the results of the investigation it was found that the suspect also forged the victim’s account so that it appeared that the victim’s funds remained in his account.

Anto asked Maybank to immediately follow up on the protection of its client, Winda Earl.

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