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PPATK finds suspicious transactions in Jero's bank account
The Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) said in Jakarta on Thursday that that it found suspicious transactions worth billions of rupiah in the bank accounts of Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Jero Wacik, who was named a suspect in an extortion case on Wednesday
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he Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) said in Jakarta on Thursday that that it found suspicious transactions worth billions of rupiah in the bank accounts of Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Jero Wacik, who was named a suspect in an extortion case on Wednesday.
PPATK deputy chairman Agus Santoso said that his office already sent Jero's financial records to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) for a follow-up.
Agus added that that if later the KPK confirmed that the suspicious transactions were identified as criminal violations, then the antigraft body would move to slap money laundering charges on Jero.
He further said Jero's financial records revealed other parties that might have been involved with Jero in the extortion scheme, but he declined to reveal any names to prevent their publication from hampering the ongoing investigation at the KPK.
"The flow of money in the financial records can help the KPK to net other possible suspects in this case," he went on, adding that he could not recall the exact total amount of suspicious transactions in Jero's bank accounts.
Jero, who is also a senior Democratic Party politician, is the third minister in outgoing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Cabinet to be named a graft suspect, after former youth and sports minister Andi Alfian Mallarangeng, also a Democratic Party politician, and former religious affairs minister Suryadharma Ali. (nfo)
