Hi Jack,
since this issue affects so many people I will elaborate a bit more on this scam. The central person in question here is Djohan Darmadi who is an Indonesian Chinese. He is the brokerage owner and used his regulated Indonesian forex brokerage firm called PT Sentratama Investor Berjangka to lure thousands of clients since at least 2016 to open accounts there.

Once the clients opens their account, they are told to remit funds to an unregulated account with similar name called PT Sentratama Investor Future. When clients questioned him on the different company name he would tell them that both companies are regulated by BAPPEBTI. Berjangka translated to English is Futures which made many think that both company names were just the same regulated brokerage company. This is the centre of the scam as once the money is transferred to the unregulated PT Sentratama Investor Future, basically everyone stupidly transferred their money into a scam brokerage firm which Djohan Darmadi had full control and ownership of. So many people trusted Djohan, the people are mainly Malaysian’s, Indonesians, Singaporeans and Philippino’s. In return for the trust in him and his businesses, he screwed them over for every single cent.

Please refer to the regulated BAPPEBTI link which shows the actual regulated company name (PT. SENTRATAMA INVESTOR BERJANGKA) and even the regulated company bank accounts.

https://bappebti.go.id/pialang_berjangka/detail/003

Legal action is underway in Indonesia against PT Sentratama Investor Future. See link below

https://www.tvonenews.com/ekonomi/191964-ha...jangka-disomasi

Even in Malaysia Djohan Darmadi opened another brokerage firm in Labuan called UW Global (UWGI). After many complaints to the regulator from clients who closed their accounts and did not receive their monies, LFSA finally acted in December 2023 and put UWGI on business restriction. See company number 20 in the link below.

https://www.labuanfsa.gov.my/general-info/i...censed-entities

LFSA went a step further to dispel the lies being told by UWGI and it’s puppet Director Fenddy Hamson. They lied to clients saying that due to business restriction, they are now unable to payback clients as their business accounts were frozen. LFSA gave clear clarification via their website on January 2024 saying the business restriction EXCLUDES “attending to request for
refund for withdrawal and closure of account AND UWGI to take immediate action to honour and pay all overdue payments to its existing clients.” See Link below.

https://www.labuanfsa.gov.my/general-info/i...n-uw-global-inc

Now his other SCAM brokerage is in Dubai called Maxwell Global DMCC which recently changed the company name to Quantum Prime Trading DMCC. This scam brokerage is also unregulated but as you can see in the videos Djohan say’s DMCC is the regulator but investigation shown in the videos clearly show that this is another lie to continue his scam. The Quantum Prime Trading DMCC is run by some CEO called Bashar. This guy has been telling clients that they will be receive their money for months and months and months, yet a single cent has been received. When asked to send proof of any transfer, even that he failed to do - SCAM!.

Clients be aware from these lessons learnt here as other scammers also use these methods to scam your money. We have lost millions of dollars in total and all we can do now is expose the scammer and his methods.

Any other questions please let me know. Just trying to help others to at least understand why they lost their money and how to avoid these scam pitfalls in the future.

https://www.labuanfsa.gov.my/general-info/i...bal-inc-ll13316

UW global Labuan finally closed. Goodbye those institutional and private investors