Bank Employee Uses Customers' Fund for Binomo; Incurs Rp1.1bn State Loss
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5 April 2022 18:42 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A state-owned bank employee in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, Arini Listiani Chalid, caused a state loss of Rp1.1 billion. The value was obtained based on the results of an internal audit after Arini used customers' funds to trade binary options using Binomo.
In a hearing at the Banjarmasin Corruption Court on Monday, April 4, the defendant said she had been using the Binomo trading platform since 2019. She used the customer's savings account as loan collateral, from which she reused the fund to transact via Binomo's app.
She even withdrew funds from the accounts she used as collateral illegally, and use them to top up her Binomo account's balance.
"I had to sell property assets to replace some of the losses, with more or less Rp900 million left," she told the Chairman of the Panel of Judges, Yusriansyah.
Arini said she had no more assets to compensate for the remaining banking losses and was ready to accept all consequences and punishments.
The prosecutor, Adi Suparna, asked for two weeks to prepare the charges until the next trial, which is scheduled for next Monday.
The Binomo app case surfaced after social media influencer Indra Kesuma, a.k.a. Indra Kenz, was arrested by the police and named a suspect in an alleged case of an investment scam.
As an influencer, Indra accrued his wealth from becoming an affiliate of Binomo, a binary options trading platform that works more like gambling rather than investment.
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