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)