Nowhere to run: Medlin (standing, centre) being guarded by police officers during a press conference at the Jakarta police headquarters following his arrest. — AFP
AN American fugitive wanted at home in connection with a US$700mil (RM2.9bil) cryptocurrency scam has been arrested in Jakarta on sex charges, Indonesian authorities said.
Russ Medlin, who entered the South-East Asian nation on a tourist visa last year, was nabbed in the capital on Monday after three teenage girls alleged that he paid to have sex with them, police said.
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