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National scene: Amir denies wrongdoing in passport case
Former law and human rights minister Amir Syamsuddin said all the money generated by an online passport payment system, or the âpayment gatewayâ, had been delivered to state coffers
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ormer law and human rights minister Amir Syamsuddin said all the money generated by an online passport payment system, or the 'payment gateway', had been delivered to state coffers.
He said that though there was a delay in the delivery of the funds, it never exceeded 24 hours.
'As far as I know, the money went to state coffers. It was kept in [a private bank account] for one night,' he said as quoted by kompas.com.
The National Police have named former deputy law and human rights minister Denny Indrayana a suspect for manipulating the payment gateway system.
The police accused Denny of appointing two vendors ' PT Nusa Inti Artha and PT Finnet Indonesia ' to support the system and pool the payment money, triggering Rp 32.09 billion (US$42.4 million) in state losses.
Amir rebuffed the police's claim, saying it was quite common to pool funds in a bank account before transferring it to the state, as long as it did not stay in a private bank account for more than a day.
Earlier, National Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Anton Charliyan said Denny instructed the two vendors to open a bank account to pool the passport service payment.
'One [bank] account was opened on the behalf of the two vendors. The payment for the passport service went there, but it should have been transferred to the state treasury,' he said.
