Directorate of Special Criminal Investigations (Dirreskrimsus) Polda Metro Jaya broke into a company online loans (loans) located in Manado, North Sulawesi. The company checks 4 loan applications. Everything?
Dirkrimsus Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Auliansyah Lubis said 40 workers were found using laptops or computers during the raid. They check loan applications called KreditNow, AkuKaya, KamiKaya and Easy Go that don’t have permission.
“There are four illegal loan applications offered. Online loans are known to operate under the names KreditNow, AkuKaya, KamiKaya and EasyGo. They do not have permission from the OJK,” said Kombes Auliansyah Lubis in his statement, Sunday (4 /12 /2022).
He explained that the four application offices operate under the guise of being cooperative offices. During the raid, her group named 2 suspects as collections officers and leaders of illegal loan sharks.
“After conducting an examination and a search, as many as two people were named as suspects. They were A as the debt collector who threatened the victim and G as the head of the illegal loan,” Auliansyah explained.
Polda Metro Jaya is known to have raided the office of an online loan company (Pinjol) in Manado, North Sulawesi. The raid targeted the headquarters of the Marina store, where the loan office operates.
“On November 29, 2022, Polda Metro Jaya’s Sub-Directorate Cyber team intervened in the area of the city of Manado, North Sulawesi. The action was carried out in one of the shops located in the Marina shopping area , Manado City, which is strongly suspected to be where online lending operates,” Direskrimsus Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Auliansyah Lubis told reporters on Sunday (4/12/2022).
He said at least the illegal loan process had been going on for more than a year. The turnover of customers’ money is estimated to reach billions of rupees.
“This illegal lending business has been going on for about a year, with clients’ money and an estimated turnover of billions of rupees every month,” Auliansyah said.
Meanwhile, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Criminal Investigation Unit’s Cyber Sub-Directorate, Kompol Victor said that so far his party was still coordinating with the North Sulawesi Police’s Cyber Sub-directorate team. He assured that this collaboration would further dismantle the illegal loan operation.
“Until now, a team from Siber Sub-Directorate of Polda Metro Jaya in collaboration with a team from Siber Sub-Directorate of North Sulawesi Regional Police is still conducting examinations of insured parties at the illegal loan bureau and will carry out further investigations to dismantle the entire operation of this illegal online loan,” Kompol Viktor said in his statement.
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