The Financial Transactions Report and Analysis Center (PPATK) has found that 50 Bank Century customers who were recipients of the government-issued bailout funds were non-priority depositors.
In an interview broadcast live Saturday on Metro TV, PPATK chairman Yunus Husein said the depositors had personal, professional or financial ties with the bank, and therefore should have had lower priority.
“Bank Indonesia itself acknowledged these depositors were linked to the bank, so they were not on the priority list,” Yunus said.
He said the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) had requested the PPATK examine the transfer of funds from Bank Century to the 50 depositors, which involved 124 transactions.
The government issued a total of Rp 6.76 trillion in funds from Nov. 24, 2008, to July 24, 2009, to Bank Century in response to fears that its collapse would spark a systemic threat to the country’s banking system.
Yunus stressed the PPATK did not find any direct transfer of the bailout funds to certain political parties, and promised to continue examining the money flow.
“We will work best if information from the people involved is forthcoming,” he said.
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