Police Arrest Man Placing Fake QRIS Stickers on Mosques' Charity Boxes

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The police have arrested Mohammad Iman Mahlil Lubis, 39, and named him a suspect for placing fake QRIS stickers on charity boxes at a number of mosques that linked congregations to transfer money for him instead of the mosques.

“We have arrested MIML who attached fake QRIS stickers to the Nurul Iman Mosque in Blok M,” said Metro Jaya Police’s Director of the Special Criminal Investigation Unit, Senior Commissioner Auliansyah Lubis, at Police HQ, on Tuesday, April 11.

The suspect was arrested Tuesday morning in Kebayoran Lama, South Jakarta by joint officers of the South Jakarta Metro Police and Metro Jaya Police. It turned out that he committed the crime at 38 mosques located in Jakarta and Tangerang.

Iman Mahlil allegedly replaced QRIS stickers on the mosques' donation boxes with fake ones or put the fake ones next to the real ones. One of his acts was recorded by security cameras in the Nurul Iman Mosque in Blok M Square on Thursday, April 6, at 10:37 local time. The video footage was then uploaded by an Instagram account @redasamudera.id and made rounds on social media.

The South Jakarta Metro Police received an official report from a mosque in South Jakarta about the fake QRIS stickers on the charity boxes. The police thus immediately kicked off an investigation into this phishing mode.

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