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Charge Hadi with money laundering: ICW
An NGO has urged the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to explore the possibility that Hadi Poernomo was involved in money laundering when he served as taxation director general in 2001-2004
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n NGO has urged the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to explore the possibility that Hadi Poernomo was involved in money laundering when he served as taxation director general in 2001-2004.
Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) researcher Firdaus Ilyas said it was crucial for the KPK to further investigate the true origins of Hadi's wealth. 'The public is now questioning the legality of Hadi's wealth when he was a taxation director general,' he said as quoted by kompas.com on Thursday.
On Monday, the KPK named Hadi, who is also former Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) chief, a graft suspect for allegedly abusing his authority to approve a tax appeal worth Rp 5.7 trillion (US$490.2 million) by the country's largest private bank, Bank Central Asia (BCA).
Firdaus said the KPK could assess whether Hadi's assets could be categorized as regular or not through his wealth report. He added that the commission should widen the inquiry into Hadi to include his wife and other family members. 'The KPK must be encouraged to apply not only corruption but also money laundering charges in Hadi's case, but it depends on what evidence it can find,' said Firdaus.
He said there was a possibility that the KPK would find indications of money laundering in the graft case.
Based on Hadi's 2010 wealth report, his assets were valued at Rp 38.8 billion. Meanwhile, some of his properties were obtained before 2002. Under such circumstances, Firdaus acknowledged that the KPK could not apply the Corruption Law as it was created after 2002, but said that the commission short ascertain whether the wealth was truly obtained before that year.
