Jakarta – The twins Rihana and Rihani, suspects of iPhone buying and selling scams, are suspected of carrying out the action with a Ponzi scheme. Temporary losses due to their deceitful actions reached Rp35 billion.
“Results of the interim investigation, we received information from the victim that this mode is like a Ponzi scheme,” said Dirreskrimum Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Pol Hengki Haryadi at a press conference, Tuesday, (4/7).
It was explained, Rihana and Rihani lured retailers (resellers) to be able to get iPhones at prices below the market. This offer makes the victim lose hundreds to millions of rupiah for the promised 1 iPhone unit.
“From resellers, the range of losses is between Rp200-800 (thousand). However, after we explored that there were even Rp3 million from one product being offered, the price should have been Rp12 million, Rp9 million was offered as persuasion, trickery, a series of words – lying words so as to give an item,” he explained.
Polda Metro finally formed a special team (timsus) to hunt down and catch the twins. The brothers often moved places to avoid being caught by officers.
During the hunting process, the victims made reports to the Polres. There were 18 police reports (LP) in various Polres which were then withdrawn from handling the case by the Ditreskrimum Polda Metro Jaya.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 is a case of fraud and embezzlement that has continued with Article
378 of the Criminal Code and/or Article 372 of the Criminal Code in conjunction with Article 64 of the Criminal Code. They were also charged with the ITE Law for promoting their goods through social media,” he said.
Kombes Pol Hengki continued, investigators will continue to explore the alleged criminal violations committed by Rihana and Rihani. The twins are also threatened with being charged with multiple articles.
“If in the investigation process later, 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 mode of using social media, we will also apply Article 28 of the ITE Law,” said the officer who graduated from Battalion Wira Satya Akpol 1996 has this Libra zodiac sign.
He said the investigation process would be 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 Rp35 billion, but we will investigate it. Maybe this is only part of it, whether there are other victims, we will deepen it,” he emphasized. Bembo
