The hunt is on for a man who authorities said is financing an online football gambling operation in Jakarta.
Police suspect the businessman from Sumatras Bangka-Belitung province—codenamed RD—was the source of funds of an international football gambling activity through website www.sh***t.com, Antara News reported.
The operation was carried out by a man named Budi, who police arrested in North Jakarta last Aug. 31. Investigators said Budi has been RD’s agent since two years ago.
According to the media outlet, RD gave Budi a capital of IDR 2 billion ($140,352) for the operation, and Budi—acting as middleman—would take the bets he collected from participants to the organizer.
Indonesian authorities have been cracking down hard on the illegal online gambling operations in the country.
In the past month alone, police in Jakarta arrested a total of 24 people who they believed were involved in illegal gambling business in the city, Tempo reported. Officers seized IDR 51 billion ($3.6 million) from the series of raids.
Comr. Sr. Krishna Murti, director of general crimes of the Jakarta Police, told the news outlet that the illegal gambling ring was controlled by a man—with the initials LM—in the Riau province.
Authorities have also broken up an online gambling ring in the island of Bali last month. Thirty-five men and 13 women from Taiwan and China were arrested on suspicion of operating an illegal online gambling business in Jimbaran, a tourist resort in the island.
Immigration officials said some of the arrested people lacked proper documentation, while others had arrived on tourist visas but had already overstayed their welcome.
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September 07, 2015
January 30, 2014
Indonesia: National Police block 146 online gambling sites
National Police chief Gen. Sutarman disclosed on Wednesday that the police had detected at least 146 online gambling sites and blocked their account numbers.
The gambling operations, which have steadily increased in Indonesia, were discovered during routine monitoring, Sutarman said.
Sutarman admitted that gambling activities had changed from conventional operations like Togel, to Internet sites using the latest state-of-the-art technology.
"All the gambling accounts were blocked and we are continuing to investigate. Of the total, 96 accounts were fictitious with some using fake addresses, while the remainder are unknown," Sutarman said as quoted by kompas.com.
He made the remarks during a working meeting at the House of Representatives' Commission III, which oversees legal affairs, in Jakarta on Wednesday.
He explained that the National Police had set up a special team to combat cybercrime. The team first traces sites offering online gambling. If there is a strong indication that an account is offering gambling services, the police immediately block the site.
With regard to the money on the blocked accounts, Sutarman added, it would be confiscated and added to state coffers. The money would be confiscated during the trial process, based on Article 3 [of the Criminal Code] on money laundering.
"We will keep on investigating [...] and any funds proved in court to be linked to money-laundering practices will be confiscated for the state," he said.
Separately, the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) has blocked 119 accounts held at four banks, whose funds are allegedly linked to fraudulent and online gambling activities. All of the blocked accounts have used new payment methods (NPMs) for money laundering.
PPATK head M. Yusuf said NMPs were increasingly being used as alternative payment methods for cash obtained from gambling.
"This includes money from Internet gambling," Yusuf said at the PPATK in Jakarta on Friday.
He added that the PPATK had discovered 14 NPM cases using cash derived from fraud and online gambling.
Most NPMs are conducted in Jakarta (35.71 percent), followed by East Java (28.7 percent) and West Java (21.43 percent).
The gambling operations, which have steadily increased in Indonesia, were discovered during routine monitoring, Sutarman said.
Sutarman admitted that gambling activities had changed from conventional operations like Togel, to Internet sites using the latest state-of-the-art technology.
"All the gambling accounts were blocked and we are continuing to investigate. Of the total, 96 accounts were fictitious with some using fake addresses, while the remainder are unknown," Sutarman said as quoted by kompas.com.
He made the remarks during a working meeting at the House of Representatives' Commission III, which oversees legal affairs, in Jakarta on Wednesday.
He explained that the National Police had set up a special team to combat cybercrime. The team first traces sites offering online gambling. If there is a strong indication that an account is offering gambling services, the police immediately block the site.
With regard to the money on the blocked accounts, Sutarman added, it would be confiscated and added to state coffers. The money would be confiscated during the trial process, based on Article 3 [of the Criminal Code] on money laundering.
"We will keep on investigating [...] and any funds proved in court to be linked to money-laundering practices will be confiscated for the state," he said.
Separately, the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) has blocked 119 accounts held at four banks, whose funds are allegedly linked to fraudulent and online gambling activities. All of the blocked accounts have used new payment methods (NPMs) for money laundering.
PPATK head M. Yusuf said NMPs were increasingly being used as alternative payment methods for cash obtained from gambling.
"This includes money from Internet gambling," Yusuf said at the PPATK in Jakarta on Friday.
He added that the PPATK had discovered 14 NPM cases using cash derived from fraud and online gambling.
Most NPMs are conducted in Jakarta (35.71 percent), followed by East Java (28.7 percent) and West Java (21.43 percent).
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