Bali Police arrested on April May 1 st 2018 on 3 locations

103 Chinese nationals including 92 men and 11 women

The have been arrested in two houses in Denpasar and

another house in Badung regency.

Police also arrested 11 Indonesians

who were allegedly working for the Chinese nationals. 

"They were targeting Chinese nationals living in [China].

They were working from abroad to make it harder for the

Chinese police to track them.

They did not just operate in Indonesia;

many of them had worked in other countries,

" said the Bali Police's special crime director, Sr. Comr. Anom who

added that the suspects had contacted

their victims in China by phone, pretending to be the authorities.

"They had many ways to trick their victims.

They told the victims that a family member had gotten into an accident

and needed money for emergency medical treatment.

Or they threatened their victims and extorted them,"

The arrest was the result of a joint investigation conducted

by the Bali Police's special crime directorate,

the Counter Transnational and Organized Crime (CTOC) task force

and the SABATA antibandits, street crime and anarchism unit.

"The investigation took time.

We saw suspicious behavior from these people

who are similar to other fraudulent cyber activities

previously uncovered in Bali,

The police later raided three houses in connection to the case on Tuesday,

seizing multiple mobile phones, routers and laptops allegedly used to commit fraud. 

In the mean time almost 2 million Chinese tourists visited Indonesia last year,

 overtaking Singapore as the largest group of foreign visitors to the archipelago.