Leaders of the House of Representatives’ inquiry committee on the Bank Century bailout will visit the Central Jakarta District Court for consultation over a possibility to get access to data on Bank Mutiara’s depositors suspected of receiving the bailout fund.
Bank Mutiara is the rebranded Bank Century, and the committee plans to force executive director Maryono to break the bank secrecy regulation to facilitate the inquiry into the controversial bailout, which ballooned ten times to Rp 6.76 trillion (US$716 million) from its original estimate.
"I and (committee chairman) Idrus (Marham) will go to the district court this afternoon because the executive director is not cooperative with us," the committee’s deputy chairman Gayus Lumbuun from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) told reporters on Tuesday.
Gayus said Maryono seemed to have covered up around 40 suspicious accounts.
“These accounts, according to the Financial Transaction Report and Analysis Center (PPATK), have violated the banking law," Gayus added.
He insisted that the committee would remain unmoved by recent pressures and threats targeting its members.
"It is foolish to threat us," he said.
Idrus added that he believed the pressure would not deter the committee from digging deeper into the alleged irregularities surrounding the bailout.
A number of committee members and lawmakers from parties that support the inquiry have recently been linked to past legal cases, including Idrus who was reported to the police on Monday for his alleged role in an illegal procurement of rice in 2003.
PDI-P senior politician Emir Moeis is also facing media scrutiny following a report saying that he had made numerous suspicious transactions with Bank Century.
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