Six Instagram (celebgram) celebrities from Metro City, Lampung, were arrested by the police for promoting online gambling. The six celebrities arrested promoted online gambling sites with a server network in Cambodia.
The six celebrities from Metro City were arrested by the Criminal Investigation Unit (Tipidter) of the Metro Police Criminal Investigation Unit (Sat Reskrim) for promoting online gambling sites on their respective social media accounts.
The six celebrities were arrested in a number of places in the Metro City area at different times. The six celebrities arrested consisted of four women and two men.
The celebrities claimed to be followers of tens of thousands. They have been promoting online gambling sites since three years ago and several online gambling sites, only endorsed them in the last two months.
From the police investigation, the six celebrities promoted online gambling sites in the form of slot gambling with a server network in Cambodia.
The six actors have their respective roles, namely four female celebrities acting as talent and two male celebrities acting as agents or recruiters.
One of the celebrities with the initials BA admitted that he was contracted for three months to promote an online gambling site for a fee of IDR 1.5 million to 3.5 million.
“From the payment I received, I did not take all of them, but they were divided into teams,” said BA.
The six celebgrams were arrested after the Tipidter Unit of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Metro Police carried out cyber patrols. From these patrols, the police found six celebgram accounts that promoted a number of online gambling sites in the form of slot gambling.
From the arrest of six celebrities, the police confiscated evidence in the form of screenshots of promotions for online gambling sites on their respective social media accounts.
Head of the Tipidter Unit of the Bripka Police, Deni Saputra, said the six celebrities were arrested by the police for promoting a number of online gambling sites. Promotion on Instagram through link stories to links directly to online gambling sites.
“The six celebrities were arrested for intentionally and without the right to distribute, transmit, and or make accessible electronic information and or electronic documents that have gambling content,” said Bripka Deni Saputra at the Metro Police Headquarters, Wednesday, June 26.
Deni Saputra explained that their online gambling promotion uploads on their social media accounts were caught by the Tipidter Unit while conducting cyber patrols.
“Two other celebrities were arrested after his party carried out an investigation into other accounts related to the four celebrities who had been arrested,” said Deni Saputra.
For further investigation, the six celebgrams from Metro City were detained at the Metro Police, Lampung. The perpetrators were charged with Article 45 paragraph (3) in conjunction with Article 27 paragraph (2) of the Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 1 of 2024 concerning the Second Amendment to Law Number 11 of 2008 concerning Electronic Information and Transactions or Article 303 paragraph (1) to 1a and 1b of the Criminal Code concerning Gambling.
With this article, the six celebrities face a sentence of 10 years in prison.
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