"It will be confiscated soon," director of special economic crimes of the Indonesian Police, Brigadier General Whisnu Hermawan, said here on Friday.
Investigators have traced two luxury cars, a Tesla model 3 electric car, and a 2012 California-type Ferrari to Kenz, he informed.
A luxury house worth Rp6 billion in Deli Serdang, North Sumatra; a house in Medan, North Sumatra worth approximately Rp1.7 billion; and another house in Tangerang, Banten have also been included on the list of his assets, he said.
Investigators have also found an apartment belonging to Kenz in Medan and blocked four bank accounts of Kenz," he added.
"(There is an) an apartment in Medan, four accounts on behalf of Indra Kesuma, and the Jenius account also on behalf of Indra Kesuma," Hermawan said.
The assets will be confiscated as soon as the police obtain a confiscation order from the court and the National Land Agency (BPN), he disclosed.
"Possibly Monday (March 7, 2022), we will go to Medan to confiscate the assets. (Now, we have) requested the order from the local district court," he said.
Hermawan added that investigators are working with the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) to track down other assets belonging to Kenz, including those registered on behalf of other persons.
Earlier, spokesperson for the Indonesian Police, Senior Commissioner Gatot Repli Handoko, had said the police has applied to the BPN, PPATK, the Traffic Police Department, and the court for permission to confiscate Kenz's assets.
"Investigators have sent letters to BPN, then PPATK and Korlantas, and the court for approval of the confiscation," Handoko informed.
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Kenz has been officially declared a suspect in the alleged Binomo fraud case, he said.
On February 3, he was reported for alleged fraud linked to the Binomo application, a binary options trading platform, by eight victims.
Binomo has been put on the illegal list as it is considered more like a gambling than a trading platform, police said.
Kenz has been charged under the Electronic Information and Transactions Law (ITE), Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Prevention and Eradication of Money Laundering, and Article 5 of the Criminal Code, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
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Editor: Rahmad Nasution
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