ANTARA News, 3 December 2009
A member of House Commission III dealing among others with legal affairs has called for the disclosure of transactions worth more than Rp2 billion at former Bank Century. "We have asked the Center of Financial Transaction Analysis and Reporting (PPATK) to disclose the flow of funds of former customers of Bank Century making transactions worth more than Rp2 billion. Where their funds have gone to," the legislator, Bambang Soesatyo, said at a hearing with PPATK chairman Yunus Husein here on Wednesday.
The case of former Bank Century was centered on the injection of Rp6.7 trillion by the government last year to bail out the bank facing liquidity problems at the time.
Bamband Soesatyo said according to the Supreme Audit Board (BPK) there were criminal indications with regard to the flows of funds from November 2008 to April 2009.
He said if PPATK would disclose the suspicious flows of funds the results could be confronted with those allegedly receiving the funds from the bank.
Bambang had also asked the PPATK to conduct tests to validate the accounts of customers who had disbursed for a big amount of cash.
"If the PPATK would disclose the transactions and conduct validation the results could be used by the Team of Nine to verify their data," he said.
Yunus Husein said that PPATK would only do it upon a request and the funds it would trace must be specific in terms of the names of the owner and when the transactions were done.
If the Team of Nine initiators for the exercise of the House of Representatives` (DPR) inquiry right asked for it, they must submit the names and dates of transactions, Yunus said.
"We are ready to help the team but in what area we should help," he said. Yunus also asked the team to submit their application in a written form and in detail so that the transactions to be traced were specific.
He said the number of bank transactions reached tens to hundreds of thousands a day and therefore their demand must be made specific and clear.
He said the PPATK had already traced the flow of funds from 51 customers of the bank upon the BPK`s order. "The result is we have found 59 transactions worth suspicion involving Rp39 million to Rp20 billion in funds totalling Rp146 billion. We have reported the findings to BPK," he said.
The House of Representatives recently decided to set up a special committee to investigate the case.
Source: ANTARA News
A member of House Commission III dealing among others with legal affairs has called for the disclosure of transactions worth more than Rp2 billion at former Bank Century. "We have asked the Center of Financial Transaction Analysis and Reporting (PPATK) to disclose the flow of funds of former customers of Bank Century making transactions worth more than Rp2 billion. Where their funds have gone to," the legislator, Bambang Soesatyo, said at a hearing with PPATK chairman Yunus Husein here on Wednesday.
The case of former Bank Century was centered on the injection of Rp6.7 trillion by the government last year to bail out the bank facing liquidity problems at the time.
Bamband Soesatyo said according to the Supreme Audit Board (BPK) there were criminal indications with regard to the flows of funds from November 2008 to April 2009.
He said if PPATK would disclose the suspicious flows of funds the results could be confronted with those allegedly receiving the funds from the bank.
Bambang had also asked the PPATK to conduct tests to validate the accounts of customers who had disbursed for a big amount of cash.
"If the PPATK would disclose the transactions and conduct validation the results could be used by the Team of Nine to verify their data," he said.
Yunus Husein said that PPATK would only do it upon a request and the funds it would trace must be specific in terms of the names of the owner and when the transactions were done.
If the Team of Nine initiators for the exercise of the House of Representatives` (DPR) inquiry right asked for it, they must submit the names and dates of transactions, Yunus said.
"We are ready to help the team but in what area we should help," he said. Yunus also asked the team to submit their application in a written form and in detail so that the transactions to be traced were specific.
He said the number of bank transactions reached tens to hundreds of thousands a day and therefore their demand must be made specific and clear.
He said the PPATK had already traced the flow of funds from 51 customers of the bank upon the BPK`s order. "The result is we have found 59 transactions worth suspicion involving Rp39 million to Rp20 billion in funds totalling Rp146 billion. We have reported the findings to BPK," he said.
The House of Representatives recently decided to set up a special committee to investigate the case.
Source: ANTARA News
