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Indonesian police freeze 811 accounts over suspected online-gambling links

Enforcement & compliance

Indonesia’s National Police Criminal Investigation Agency ordered banks to freeze activity on 811 accounts holding approximately $9.5 million, reportedly citing suspected links to online gambling and illegal casino sites. Police said the action used analysis from the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center and that investigations would continue. Three people were separately arrested in North Jakarta over alleged work for online-gambling platforms; they could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

The account freezes and arrests signal enforcement exposure for payment networks and online-gambling operators linked to Indonesia.

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Indonesia’s OJK directs banks to review 36,191 suspected gambling-linked accounts

Indonesia’s Financial Services Authority, the OJK, told banks to apply enhanced due diligence or block 36,191 accounts suspected of links to illegal online gambling. Banking supervision chief Dian Ediana Rae said the accounts were identified using information from the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs; banks were also instructed to close other accounts linked to the same national identification numbers.

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