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Online gamer arrested for allegedly stealing Rp 1.8b for 'Mobile Legends'

The General Crimes Investigation Directorate of the Jakarta Police is accusing a gamer of having stolen Rp 1.85 billion (US$127,498) to purchase items on a popular multiplayer online game called Mobile Legends.

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he General Crimes Investigation Directorate of the Jakarta Police is accusing a gamer of having stolen Rp 1.85 billion (US$127,498) from a bank to purchase items on a popular multiplayer online game called Mobile Legends.

The woman is one of five suspects officers arrested recently in connection with four different cases related to theft, extortion and blackmail.

The 26-year-old jobless woman identified as YS was arrested in her hometown of Pontianak, West Kalimantan on May 1, the deputy chief of the directorate, Adj. Sr. Comr. Ade Ary Syam Indradi, said.

“She managed to steal and cause losses to the bank,” he said in a press conference at the Jakarta Police headquarters on Saturday without revealing which bank.

The case was uncovered when police received a report from the bank about suspicions of irregular transactions from a Mobile Legends account. Police claimed their investigation revealed it was YS who allegedly committed the theft through her gaming account.

Ade explained that YS allegedly purchased items needed in Mobile Legends by modifying her virtual account number used to make payments. The alleged cheat allowed the purchase to go through without reducing the balance in her own account. She allegedly did this multiple times within the past year.

“One purchase of an item was worth hundreds of thousands of rupiah, which she kept on doing. She was well aware that she did not pay for the facilities that she bought in Mobile Legends,” he said adding that during questioning, YS told investigators she only used the money for Mobile Legends.

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