National Police Chief Comr. Gen. Ito Sumardi said the culprit was arrested and named a suspect in the case.
“The suspect knows Ariel and they are friends,” Ito told the press at the National Police headquarters on Friday.
Ito declined to name the suspect but confirmed that he was currently being questioned by Bandung police.
“The investigation is ongoing. We are trying to find out if the sex tapes were spread with Ariel’s knowledge or whether they were distributed without his consent,” Ito said.
Previously, police announced that they had arrested 9 people who had allegedly uploaded the videos to the Internet.
Ariel and the two women in the videos, actress and model Luna Maya, and gossip show host Cut Tari have also been named suspects.
On Wednesday, Luna Maya was taken into police custody.
In the initial statement from National Police spokesman, Comr. Marwoto Soeto said that Luna was arrested on Wednesday night because she had been “uncooperative” with the investigation.
Later on Thursday Marwoto corrected the earlier statement by saying that she was not arrested but was only interrogated and then released to go home.
July 17, 2010 at 8:36 am
Prior to this sex tape scandal, I was one of his fanatic fans.