Crime Roundup: International Online Gambling Syndicate Uncovered, Child Dies in Project Pit

The Jakarta Metropolitan Police’s Cyber Crime Directorate has uncovered an international online gambling syndicate linked to the website ‘1XBET’, resulting in the arrest of four suspects. In West Jakarta, police have detained a mugger who had committed over a dozen robberies, specifically targeting children playing with mobile phones outside their homes. The General Criminal Investigation Directorate is continuing to trace the assets of the Hanania Group, a travel agency accused of defrauding prospective Umrah pilgrims, with the aim of using recovered funds to send the victims to the Holy Land. Police are also investigating a case in which the car of Adinda Cresheilla, Putri Indonesia Pariwisata 2022, was struck by a rock, shattering the windscreen while she was driving in the Pondok Indah area of South Jakarta. In a separate case, police have summoned the contractor and are examining witnesses following the death of a four-year-old child, identified by the initial I, who fell into an unsecured pit at a multi-function field construction project in Manggarai, Tebet, South Jakarta.