Behind the frenzied economic growth of Batam City as one of Indonesia’s strategic areas, the authorities succeeded in uncovering an activity that shocked the public.
An apartment located in Lubuk Baja District, Batam City, Riau Islands, is suspected of being the center of an online investment fraud operation targeting victims across countries.
This case immediately attracted national attention because it involved hundreds of foreign nationals and was suspected of being related to an international online scam network operating in an organized manner.
No half-hearted, as many as 210 foreign nationals were arrested in a joint operation carried out by the Directorate General of Immigration together with various related agencies.
The large number of perpetrators arrested, the large number of electronic devices confiscated, and the alleged victims spread across Europe make this case one of the biggest disclosures of online fraud that has occurred in Indonesia in recent years.
This disclosure also shows how Indonesia is still one of the locations that has the potential to be exploited by transnational crime syndicates to run their digital operations.
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