Jakarta –
Twins Rihana and Rihani were arrested on a case fraud buying and selling of iPhones so that temporary losses reached IDR 35 billion. Police suspect the twins cheated using a Ponzi scheme.
“Results of the interim examination, we received information from the victim that this mode was like a Ponzi scheme,” said the Directorate of Criminal Investigation. Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Hengki Haryadi in a press conference at his office, Tuesday (4/7/2023).
He explained Rihana and Rihani lured the retailers (reseller) to be able to get iPhones at below market prices. This offer makes the victim lose hundreds to millions of rupiah for the promised 1 iPhone unit.
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“From reseller-reseller, range losses between IDR 200-800 (thousand). However, after we explored that there were even Rp. 3 million from one product being offered, the price should have been Rp. 12 million, Rp. 9 million was offered as persuasion, trickery, a series of lying words so as to give an item,” he explained.
The police formed a special team (timsus) to catch the twins. The brothers often moved places to avoid being caught by officers.
During that time, the victims filed reports at the police stations. There were 18 police reports (LP) in various Polres which were then withdrawn from handling the case by the Ditreskrimum Polda Metro Jaya.
“This was put together at Polda Metro Jaya, we constructed it from the existing articles, the first of which was a case of fraud and embezzlement which continued with Article 4 of the Criminal Code,” he said.
Hengki said investigators would continue to investigate the alleged criminal offenses committed by Rihana and Rihani. The twins are threatened with being charged with multiple articles.
“If in the investigation process it turns out that this is the livelihood of the person concerned, we will also apply another article, namely 379a of the Criminal Code. And also because this is the mode of using social media, we will also apply Article 28 of the ITE Law,” he explained.
He said the investigation process was carried out continuously so that the right article was suspected of the twins. The police will also calculate the amount of losses of the victims.
“As an example, we will investigate, because so far the person concerned has always transacted using banking. We will investigate later because of the LP we received, the loss was Rp. 35 billion, but we will investigate. Maybe this is only part of it, are there other victims, will we? we do,” he said.
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