More arrested for Net crime in Yogya
More arrested for Net crime in Yogya
YOGYAKARTA (JP): Yogyakarta Police announced here on Tuesday
that they had arrested four more people for allegedly using other
people's credit card numbers for purchasing goods over the
Internet.
The latest four arrests brings the total number of people who
have so far been arrested for the crime to 10.
"There are 110 more cyber criminals on our hit list," said the
chief of the Yogyakarta Police's intelligence directorate, Sr.
Comr. Toto Sunyoto, to The Jakarta Post and Koran Tempo
Toto identified the four only as Ars. (26), Mel. (21), (both
high school graduates), Haz. (27), (Gadjah Mada University
student), and Abd. (25), a computer college graduate.
"Like the other suspects, they are accused of violating
Article 362 of the Criminal Code on theft which carries a maximum
of five-years imprisonment," said Toto, adding that the four
suspects were arrested in May.
However, all the suspects had not been detained as the police
failed to find sufficient evidence within 24 hours, and so they
had to be released, Toto said. "But, they have to report to the
police once a week."
Toto was accompanied by the chief of the Yogyakarta Police's
economic crimes unit, Comr. Didi Y. Yasmin, when interviewed.
Earlier in April, the Yogyakarta Police arrested six persons,
four of them students, for allegedly "carding" (purchasing goods
through the Internet using other persons' credit card numbers).
The operation was launched based on Interpol information that
many Yogyakarta computer hackers had been carding.
"Citizens of various countries, including Germany, Finland,
New Zealand, Australia and the United States, reported to
Interpol that their credit card numbers had been used for making
online purchases in Indonesia. Some of the carders were in
Yogyakarta," said Didi, adding that Yogyakarta topped the list
for cyber crime cases in the country.
"We detected the case in September 2000, with the crime having
taken place six months previously," he said. (23)