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akarta: The Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) said it would push the police to follow up on some suspicious financial transactions with due legal process.

“The center will meet law enforcers to cross-examine some data [on the suspicious transactions] and then we will ask them why they haven’t start investigating the case,” PPATK chief Muhammad Yusuf told reporters on Tuesday.

“If the investigators claim they did not have sufficient evidence to start the investigations, we will ask them to disclose those cases to the public,” he said.

Recently, the PPATK made an agreement with the National Police chief, Attorney General and Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leaders to hold a routine meeting, which will likely be held once every two months.

Many feel the country’s law enforcers have been lethargic in many aspects of their corruption eradication efforts.

The center has announced many findings, including suspicious “fat” bank accounts belonging to low-ranking civil servants in the country.

It found 50 percent of young civil servants were allegedly involved in corruption, including 10 individuals who possessed personal bank accounts containing hundreds of billions of rupiah.

Moreover Yusuf said that based on its yearly report, the suspicious accounts belonged not only to civil servants but also to some law enforcement officials.

“We have distributed all of the reports to law enforcers including the Corruption Eradication Commission and asked them which of our reports they have followed up and which have not,” he added.

In total, the center has distributed more than 1,800 suspicious account reports that they gathered from 2003 to 2011. From July to December 2011 alone the PPATK recorded a total of 783 reports.

Under existing laws on money laundering prevention, he said, the PPATK was allowed to question law enforcement officials on their progress.