Police Arrest Suspects Trying To Trick Jokowi’s Son Kaesang Halaman – All

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – The Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the National Police has arrested four people responsible for alleged online fraud on Instagram.

One of the victims was President Joko Widodo’s youngest son, Kaesang Pangarep.

The head of the Public Information Office (Karopenmas), the Public Relations Division of the National Police, Brigadier General (Pol) Awi Setiyono, said that the four perpetrators were minors.

“Investigators found four suspects, (namely) AF, GR, MR, DFY. On average, these children are minors, between 15 and 16 years old,” Awi said at the Bareskrim building in South Jakarta on Friday ( 9/18/2020).

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The case began with a police report under number LP / A / 508 / IX / 2020 / Bareskrim dated September 8, 2020.

So the authorities made profiling and I found a @luckycatsauction account on Instagram that was auctioning off “branded” items.

The victim who made the transaction sent money to an account that police said was an escrow account.

However, the goods paid for have never been accepted by the victim.

After verifying ownership of the accounts, the police discovered that the accounts were controlled by the four suspects located in Aceh and Medan.

Awi said the four met in cyberspace.

According to police records, the total loss due to this case was more than Rs 100 million. The perpetrators then used the money for entertainment.

“The proceeds of the money from online fraud by the suspects turned out to be for fun, to buy vegetables, to buy hand phone, buy watches, and others, “he said.

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Suspects charged under article 45A, paragraph 1, article 28, paragraph 1 and / or article 51, paragraph 2, in relation to article 36 Law Number 19 Year 2016 on the Amendments to Law Number 11 Year 2008 on information and electronic transactions and / or article 378 KUHP in relation to article 55 KUHP.

The threat of punishment, imprisonment for a maximum of 12 years and / or a maximum fine of Rp. 12 billion.

However, the handling of the case was different than usual because the four suspects were still minors.

According to Awi, there are two possible follow-ups that the police can carry out.

“According to the Child Protection Law, firstly the reorientation is carried out and it is returned to the parents, of course it is still under the supervision of the National Police and secondly restorative justice is carried out”, said.

Currently, Awi said, the perpetrators were entrusted to the Correctional Centers (Bapas) in Aceh and Medan.

Some time ago, through a tweet on Twitter, Kaesang admitted to being a ‘victim of fraud’ at the auction.

Quoted from Tribunnews.com, the deception chronology begins when the deceiver with Username The only BCA account (@luckycatsauction) contacted Kaesang via direct message, also known as DM Instagram, on Sunday (8/30).

The account notifies that Kaesang won the auction and you must send money to your account within 1×24 hours.

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However, Kaesang doubts that the auction item can still be redeemed because 1×24 hours have passed.

Kaesang also requested that the auction item could be shipped and paid for in cash if the goods arrived or cash on delivery (COD) or not.

Furthermore, Kaesang also knows that the account number ordered by DM is different from the account of the actual auction account @luckycatauction.

Knowing that he was being the subject of a fraud, Kaesang attended to the perpetrators and even asked them to check his Instagram account.

After that, the scammer realized that he had been trying to deceive President Joko Widodo’s youngest son. The author immediately apologized repeatedly and declared an error.