TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Jakarta Police have arrested four suspects allegedly a syndicate of bank saving account break-in using data exchanges. The four suspects were South Sumatra residents namely MN, AS, AN, and RP.

“The suspect purchased bank clients’ data via marketing database website,” said the police spokesman Comm. Argo Yuwono in Jakarta, Sunday, April 8.

The police’s criminal directorate team, led by Comm. Ari Cahya, tracked down the suspect while investigating the bank break-in in a private bank early this year. The suspects AN and RP were said buying the customers’ credit card data via database marketing websites which then selecting the active customers.

Using the database, NM contacted bank service to change the customers’ private data such as cell phone number and e-mail address as to create new credit card and asked the bank to send it to an address set by AS. The suspects were then doing transaction through Game On, Dokudoku, qlapa.com as well as cash withdrawal.

The police seized an assemble weapon of a revolver and four bullets with caliber 55.6 mm carried by RP when searching AS’s residence in Palembang, South Sumatra, and 10 mobile phones, credit cards, saving books of private and state bank customers, and a cash amounted Rp3 million.

To date, the Jakarta police currently hunting down the database seller and have blocked the database websites, and the suspects' bank account used for their crime.

ANTARA