Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —
Commodity Futures Trading Supervisory Board (Bappebti) admitted that he was wrong in the case fraud trading robots which claimed many victims.
Bappebti Plt chairman Didid Noordiatmoko admitted that the mistake he made was not informing the public beforehand. After all, he’s had a problem from the start trading robots it is outside the realm of CoFTRA.
“Our mistake was not warning the community beforehand, I admit it was our mistake, not warning the public beforehand, because we thought this was not the realm of CoFTRA,” Didid told Central Jakarta on Wednesday (4 /1).
However, as it turned out, the perpetrators were frauds trading robots he said that he got permission from Bappebti. Indeed, so far what has been authorized by the Ministry of Commerce is the sale trading robots That.
“Robot trading yesterday they never got a permit from the CoFTRA, they got a permit from the Ministry of Commerce to sell trading robots That. Direct Sales Business License (SIUPL), so it has permission to sell robot trade-her,” he explained.
Meanwhile, to obtain a permit to buy and sell on an exchange, the offender must obtain a permit from CoFTRA by meeting the criteria for trading commodity futures. One of the criteria explained by Didid is not to use third parties to transact with brokers or traders.
While what happened in the case of fraud trading robots it is a number of people who raise public funds under the guise of investing through trading robots.
“So for any investment transaction, we still ask the individual or the investor concerned to execute the transaction directly. In effect, we prohibit marketing by brokers for the transactions,” Didid said.
Also, the case of fraudsters trading robots nor did they get permission to raise funds from the public.
“(Most importantly) the permission to transact through (open) Tbk is clear from CoFTRA, and they don’t have that permission,” he said.
Cases of fraudulent trading robots have been spreading in Indonesia lately. One of the scams experienced by investors in the trading robot Fahrenheit.
Police estimate that the amount of investor losses due to the alleged fraud has reached IDR 5 trillion. In addition to Fahrenheit, the fraud also occurred with Net89 trading robot investors.
A member of Net89 trading robot Bambang Lukman Hadi said that due to the alleged fraud, investors’ money of IDR 10 trillion was unclear.
“We are also conservative, we take the average, the smallest is US$500. There are US$500,000, US$5,000, US$10,000, US$20,000, US$50,000, US$100,000, this is also enough. We have only need US$500, if we average it (losses) it can be more than IDR 10 trillion,” Hadi explained.
(cfd/agt)
