Hotman Paris: Winda Earl's EVOS Money Used by Suspects to Play Forex

GAMEFINITY.ID, Jakarta – PT Maybank Indonesia Tbk’s lawyer, Hotman Paris Hutapea, continues to reveal the disappearance of savings funds belonging to Esports athletes from the EVOS team, Winda Lunardi alias Winda Earl and his mother Floleta, amounting to Rp. 22 billion. In a discussion broadcast on television, Tuesday (10/11/2021) night, the famous lawyer said that suspect A alias Albert, Head of the Maybank Branch in Cipulir, circulated funds belonging to Winda and his mother to invest in foreign exchange instruments aka forex (foreign exchange). .

“It is recognized that there are branch leaders who practice banking in banking, namely using customer money to do business. He didn’t run away, he used the customer’s money. Some of the money is used to play forex,” said Hotman Paris as quoted by from Kontan.

According to Hotman, in this case, the loss of funds belonging to e-Sport athletes, Winda Lunardi and his mother Floleta, worth Rp. 22 billion was due to the fraudulent practice of suspect A. Even so, Hotman still questioned the irregularity of the savings account and ATM card that Winda had and his mother to the head of the Maybank branch received approval from Winda.

“The question is, did he use the customer’s money that had already obtained the customer’s approval to get a bigger profit? Legal questions must be answered first, if approved, there is no reason for the bank to pay.

The lawyer who was nicknamed the “King of Bankruptcy” also questioned the flow of funds into the account of Winda Herman Lunardi’s father which was transferred from Bank Central Asia on behalf of the Head of the Maybank Branch Albert. Hotman also questioned the purchase of a policy of Rp 6 billion in Winda’s name at Prudential which was taken from Winda’s account.

Head of National Anti-Fraud Maybank, Nehemia Andiko in the same discussion revealed the results of Maybank’s internal investigation, where suspect A carried out this single action as the suspect confessed. However, Maybank does not rule out the possibility of non-internal bank actors.

On a separate occasion, Winda Earl’s lawyer, Joey Pattinasarany, confirmed that Winda was not aware of the flow of funds from his personal account for the purchase of PT Prudential Life Assurance’s insurance policy. According to Joey, the purchase of the policy was made without Winda’s knowledge and approval.

“Winda only opened a savings account at Maybank Cipulir without a passbook and ATM, she only received bank statements. For all the activities of suspected bank personnel, I emphasize that my client never found out,” said Joey.

Joey also said that Winda had just realized that all the current accounts with total balances were fake. Because after receiving proof of the original transfer report from the bank, it was only seen that the remaining amount of money was Rp. 16 million and Rp. 600 thousand. Because there was no response from Maybank, Winda and his legal counsel reported to the Criminal Investigation Agency (Bareskrim) of the Police regarding his missing savings.

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