Woman becomes victim of Rp300 million padel racket business fraud
Jakarta – A woman in Grogol Petamburan, West Jakarta, named Lenny became a victim of online fraud in a padel racket business scheme with total losses reaching Rp300 million.
According to the Head of Criminal Investigation Unit (Kanit Reskrim) of Grogol Petamburan Police Station, AKP Alexander Tengbunan, following instructions from Grogol Petamburan Police Chief AKP Reza Aditya, he and his team travelled to Langkat, North Sumatra, and arrested the perpetrator.
“The perpetrator is a woman with initials FR, aged 26. We arrested her on Saturday 7 March 2026,” he said in Jakarta on Wednesday.
The 2017 Police Academy graduate stated that when brought to the police station and questioned, it was discovered that FR had only been holding Lenny’s money.
According to Alexander, FR’s husband is believed to be the mastermind of the fraud and had previously served time in a correctional institution in connection with a drug offence.
Nevertheless, the victim chose the path of family settlement after FR expressed her intention to return the Rp300 million from the fraud.
The case was subsequently resolved through “restorative justice” after the victim recovered her money from the perpetrator.
“The victim preferred to have her money returned. At that time, we directly resolved it amicably, offering ‘do you want to settle this? If you do, it will be transferred’, and it was finished there,” he said.
In this case, the perpetrator used the modus operandi of posing as an old friend of Lenny and contacting her via WhatsApp message to offer cooperation in a padel racket sales business.
The conversation lasted quite a long time before the perpetrator requested Lenny’s assistance to become a “middleman” in the business.
After that, Lenny was asked to advance the transactions to be carried out and requested to transfer hundreds of millions from Lenny.
Without any reason known to the victim, Rp300 million was transferred. After her money was lost, Lenny suddenly realised that she had become a victim of fraud. She then immediately reported the incident to Grogol Petamburan Police Station.
Based on police investigation and tracking, the perpetrator who had initially claimed to be in North Jakarta was actually in Langkat, North Sumatra.