Jakarta. The Financial Transaction Reporting and Analysis Center (PPATK) has blocked 13,481 bank accounts suspected of being linked to illegal online gambling transactions, freezing a total of approximately Rp 280 trillion ($17.77 billion) in the third quarter of 2024. “These accounts, spread across 28 banks, have been blocked,” said PPATK Head Ivan Yustiavandana on Tuesday. Ivan...
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BNI Detects Bank Accounts Linked to Online Gambling
Jakarta. State-owned Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) is collaborating with the Financial Services Authority (OJK) to detect accounts used by online gambling operators, its CEO said on Friday. The bank has the technology to identify gambling accounts before reporting them to the OJK for further action, Royke Tumilaar said. “When we detect indications of gambling accounts,...
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Online gambling war: Indonesian task force probes fraudulent bank accounts, payments at mini-marts
JAKARTA: Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Hadi Tjahjanto, who leads the newly established anti-online gambling task force, said on Wednesday (June 19) that his team was investigating how fraudulent bank accounts and payment services at mini-marts allegedly had been used for online gambling. The interministerial task force was established last week by the...
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Indonesia steps up crackdown on online gambling after spate of gruesome deaths
He also asked all public figures, religious leaders and the general public to “monitor each other, and also report if there are any indications of online gambling”, admitting it was not easy to curb gambling due to its “cross-border nature”. Indonesians play a dice game with bets. In Indonesia, participants and organisers of gambling activities...