Jakarta – The Greater Jakarta Police have actually uncovered a fraud case including using phony Quick Response Code Indonesia Standard (QRIS) barcode sticker labels at numerous places, consisting of mosques, in Jakarta.
They have actually up until now jailed one specific linked to the case.
“We have taken cops action versus a specific with initials MIML (39) who made and positioned the incorrect QRIS stickers at a number of locations,” the police ' s director of unique criminal examination, Senior Commissioner Auliansyah Lubis, said at a press conference here on Tuesday.
The case came to light after a police report was filed on April 9, 2023, by the manager of Nurul Iman Mosque at Blok M Square, a mall in South Jakarta, who found a suspicious QRIS barcode sticker label at the mosque, he informed.
“The informer is the mosque supervisor who discovered a QRIS sticker at a pillar at the mosque ' s entry. After seeing the sticker, the informer asked a mosque cleaner (the witness) who made the QRIS sticker, however the witness said he did not understand,” he said.
The mosque manager and the cleaner checked the whole mosque facilities and discovered 24 more false QRIS sticker labels.
“Later, the informer observed the CCTV, which revealed suspect MIML pasting the incorrect QRIS sticker labels,” Lubis said.
The suspect pasted the phony QRIS sticker labels over the mosque ' s legitimate QRIS sticker labels, besides the existing QRIS sticker labels, or put the fake barcode on an empty wall, he informed.
Through the false QR code sticker labels, the money that unsuspecting mosque-goers meant to donate to the mosque rather went to the owner of the incorrect QRIS.
Lubis said that MIML is presumed of violating Post 28 Paragraph 1 of Law No. 19 of 2018 on Electronic Information and Transactions, which carries a six-year jail sentence or an optimum fine of Rp1 billion.
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