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he House of Representatives' inquiry team into Bank Century bailout has given the Financial Investigation Unit (PPATK) two weeks starting Friday to identify possible illegal transfers of funds to those linked with political parties.

The demand came after the team concluded PPATK findings before a hearing session on Thursday were not satisfactory, particularly on the list of suspicious recipients of funds.

The list of recipients has already been used as supporting evidence for the investigative audit report by the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) as presented to the House last month.

The audit concludes that the legal grounds for the bailout were "questionable" and that the distribution of funds was marred by misappropriations. But the audit does not disclose names of suspicious recipients.

PPATK chief Yunus Husein testified in the hearing saying an ongoing investigation by the unit had so far found no evidence to prove any allegation that some of names were connected to any political parties or the government.

Yunus said there were names similar to the names of several politicans, "but when verified, they turned out to be different people. We will dig deeper for information on these names if requested."

Yunus later submitted to the team a sealed envelope containing the recipients' names and said information inside the envelope is top secret and protected by the law. Only hours after the submission, an online media source publicized names that were supposedly on the list.

The inquiry team deemed the secret information as nothing more than "useless data," said team member Maruarar Sirait, who represented the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P).

A team member representing the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), Andy Rachmat said Yunus was "too dramatic" to give the data in a sealed envelope. "I don't see anything *big' in these papers," he said.

Agitated by the lack of progress, the team, through its chairman - Idrus Marham of the Golkar Party, demanded three things that must be completed within a period of two weeks.

"First, trace all the suspicious transactions. Second, verify all of the bailout fund recipients whose names are similar to political figures. Third, check the funds and deposits owned by all authorities that were involved in the bailout," Idrus said.

Yunus acknowledged the team's grievances, but he defended his position saying it would take a lot of resources and a long time to trace all the transactions tied to the Rp 6.76 trillion (US$716.5 million) bailout funds.

"Just imagine, *there were* at least 3,000 transactions made in a month involving at least 30 banks," he said.

Yunus, however, said that he had sent official letters to all 125 general banks across the country requesting that the banks spot and report any transactions made with Bank Century after the bailouts, particularly if involving politically-linked figures.