Jakarta –
Journalist Shafinaz Nachiar (27) admitted to being an alleged victim bogus investments performed by the artist with the initials SA. Shafinaz said SA offered the investment through social media.
“He initially shared stories on Instagram, shared medical equipment, there was PPE, oxygen of all kinds, but we as victims never saw the shape of it, so we just gave funds to his company which he assumed was his company,” Shafinaz Nachiar told reporters. after mediation process at East Jakarta Metropolitan Police on Wednesday (11/1/2023).
Shafinaz admitted that he has joined the investment since August 2021 with a total investment of IDR 402 million. He said the investment money will start running out in December 2021.
“He promised that we would give a lot, there would be such and such a profit, it would go from August to December, and from the nominal value that had been entered, in December many of those who were not disbursed did not give us their money back as promised” , he said.
“The point is from August to December 2021, for a total of Rp. 402,500,000. What was returned to me was only Rp. 59 million or Rp. 58 million. So these are the remaining Rp. 300 million. Ed was gradually added “There is something I retired, there is one I stayed. So why do I feel that even Rp. 50 million was returned to my money, because what I put there was Rp. 400 million. So my profit is my money,” he added.
He said SA convinced him that the investment company belonged to SA. Shafinaz then found out that SA had just joined the investment two months before him.
“And his initial mode was that he shared on Instagram and said that he joined here for a year. And the fact that December was discovered, it turned out that he himself had just joined in June. . Second lie, he never introduced anyone to his partner. . So I just told him to transfer money. Third, he said this was “my medical devices” company. All the evidence was in the chat. So he, like as far as i know he owns a company and all sorts of stuff. He never mentions who his partner is, what is the factory and all sorts of stuff. What is my basis for wanting to invest because he is my friend. And all the victims, other friends, there’s relatives, managers, high school mates, all kinds of things,” he said.
He said he had been trying to mediate with SA as a family. However, the mediation failed, so she chose to file a police report.
“I personally cut off communication because from the very beginning I have been trying to mediate through the kinship and I could not find a clear point, so the bottom line is that it’s not good, so now I have used my lawyer so that the legal path it will work,” said Shafinaz.
“So before I went to the police, I met him at his house, he cried. I’m still sorry for everything there, because what he said hasn’t been proven. We finally brought him into the realm of the law,” she added. .
Shafinaz said that in December 2021 SA created a group and reported that the investment failed. You said you knew other victims of the group.
“I didn’t suspect anything, he himself formed a group, we gathered in a group and all the victims were there, that’s where I met this victim,” he said.
Shafinaz said SA had said it would try to recover the victims’ investment losses. He said the money had not been returned to date.
“(In that SA group he said) ‘Sorry guys, my investment is not working out, I can’t return the funds, it turns out my partner lied.’ From there, I started throwing things at people and that’s when, We tried to negotiate a family relationship, right? there was an inscription that said ‘yes, my family and I are trying to find what resources we can commit to all my friends,'” Shafinaz said.
He said SA admitted managing the investment with 3 other people. He said SA sent the money to other parties without asking permission and providing information first.
“As for the partners he said there were 3, but I don’t know any of them and when he transfers our money to other people he doesn’t say any permission,” Shafinaz said.
Additionally, Shafinaz said that posts about the investment were no longer visible on SA’s social media. She said the post was only uploaded to a close friends or “close friends” list of SA.
“So the ads are no longer on his social media, so if I want to show them, I just have proof of the acquisitions we’ve saved, so proof that he’s marketing is no longer on social media. (Before it was be) put it in the highlights but just because highlights are for close friends, so only close friends can see it,” Shafinaz continued.
The same thing was said by Via (26) and Tila (26) who claimed to be victims of fraudulent investment in SA. Via admits that he lost Rp. 50 million, while Tila lost more than Rp. 15 million.
“At first, it was actually because he became a close friend on Instagram, so he was a friend on campus and when he was on campus, there was no problem, so I didn’t suspect anything at all because there have been many testimonials from people in the story who they were successful and sent money like that so at first it was just about investing a little like that but suddenly i saw on a social media how come it was fake it looked like that and from there i also just found that the way to offer it to everyone is different. So there are several friends on campus who were also victims when asked about the information they provided varied. The total (loss) was around Rp. 50 million, actually membership was just like August 2021, that’s new,” Via said.
“My case is similar to Via, the first time I see him, I put him in a close friend on Instagram and then when I know him from a campus organization I also often talk to him, I know his son is good so I believe so , but the first time I see his testimony a dear friend offers me it on Instagram, I asked him if I could ask for an employment contract or something, because he said he was injecting capital into medical devices and had a relationship with the government Usually there was such a letter, but at that time he said it was confidential, well, because he said it was the first time I asked, I didn’t put it right away, but a few months later I saw that it came out that the one who injected the capital was going well, how many months and it is seen that Sis Shaf also had it, or someone put hundreds of millions, I think you can prove it, so once you put it, come back again , twice, it seems the second or third time, that’s when there was information that it turned out that there was this case, so that’s where he didn’t come back when I entered him the second time or the third time. (The total loss) exceeds IDR 15 million,” Tila said.
Then, another person who claimed to be a victim of fraudulent investment in SA medical devices was called Sasa (25). Sasà admitted that he trusted SA because there were still high cases of Covid at that time.
“The timeline is pretty much the same as the other two victims, so the first time I met him it was via a faculty and then he posted on his close friend as well, I happened to be posted on his close friend of instagram then what made me sure is he actually said if this is medical device investment where during the pandemic the highs were high so here we trust him and he also gave many testimonials like that so this is actually what made us trust to put money in him at the end like that loss) about 35 million IDR,” Sasa said.
The journalists tried to seek an answer from the SA and their lawyers of the East Jakarta Police after the mediation process. However, they are still reluctant to provide an answer.
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