Polri and FBI dismantle cross-border business email scam

The Indonesian National Police (Polri) and the FBI have dismantled a cross-border Business Email Compromise (BEC) scheme that defrauded a United States-based company, Aiki Power Tools, of approximately USD 350,000 (roughly IDR 5.6 billion).

Authorities arrested two suspects: an Indonesian national, LPK (56), who allegedly prepared the legal documentation and bank accounts used to collect the illicit funds, and a Chinese national, LJ (46), who facilitated communications and transactions. While law enforcement successfully blocked and secured USD 285,000 of the stolen funds, the alleged mastermind, identified by the initials CW, remains at large in China.