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JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – The owner of the buying and selling company Grab Toko, Yudha Manggala Putra, is suspected of committing online fraud.

Yudha was also arrested by investigators from the Cyber ​​Crimes Directorate, Bareskrim Polri in the South Jakarta area, on January 9, 2021.

“Those who carry out the alleged criminal act are spreading false and misleading news resulting in consumer losses in electronic transactions, money transfers / money laundering crimes,” Kabareskrim, Komjen Listyo Sigit Prabowo, said in his statement on Tuesday (01/12/2021).

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According to the police, Yudha, who has now become a suspect, sought the help of a third party to create a Grab Toko site.

Through this site, it offers various types of electronic items at very low prices that attract potential buyers. However, the items purchased by the buyers were not delivered.

According to the policy, there are 980 buyers who have purchased from the site. Of that number, only nine buyers received their order.

If there are consumers asking why their orders haven’t shipped, Yudha has hired six customer service people to take care of requesting extra delivery time.

“The total loss was estimated at around 17 billion rupees from advertisers and buyers,” said the Director of Criminal Action of Criminal Investigation of the National Police Brigadier General (Pol) Slamet Uliandi in his statement.

Furthermore, Slamet said, the perpetrator was also suspected of having invested the proceeds of his crime in cryptocurrencies. Researchers will handle this in a separate file.

Yudha was also suspected of violating article 28 paragraph 1 in conjunction with article 45A paragraph 1 of Law Number 19 of 2016 on Amendments to Law Number 11 of 2008 on Information and Electronic Transactions and / or article 378 of the Criminal Code and / or article 82 and / or article 85 of Law Number 3 of 2011 regarding fund transfers.

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The threat of punishment is imprisonment for a maximum of 6 years and / or a maximum fine of 1 billion IDR.

Previously, several consumers in Indonesia claimed to have been misled by a company that bought and sold Grab Toko products.

A buyer wrote on his Twitter account on Wednesday (1/6/2021) that he had ordered two 256GB iPhone 11 Pro from Grab Toko, each for IDR 11.5 million.

However, the merchandise did not arrive, so the total loss he suffered reached 23 million rupees.

On the same day, an Instagram Story screenshot was circulated from the @grabtokoid account, which claimed that investors had secretly taken money from Grab Toko consumers.

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A person claiming to be Yudha Manggala Putra as the CEO of PT Grab Toko Indonesia in a WhatsApp message to a client claims to have reported a case of embezzlement from Grab Toko to the police.

“We will refund the consumer’s money as soon as possible after going through the investigation process by the police. Once again, I apologize for the damage this has caused., “as well as the Instagram account @grabtokoid.

However, after that, there was no more information from Grab Toko.