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No suspicious activity in Tito's accounts: PPATK
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All ready -- Comr.Gen. Tito Karnavian is sworn in as National Counterterrorism Agency(BNPT) chief at the State Palace in Jakarta in March. (Antara/-)
T
he Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) has claimed never to have detected a poor financial record on the part of National Police chief candidate Comr. Gen. Tito Karnavian.
"One of our criteria is the public report. There have been no reports about him," PPATK chairman Muhammad Yusuf said during a hearing at the House of Representatives in Jakarta on Tuesday.
In the hearing, members of the House's Commission III overseeing legal affairs, human rights and security questioned the PPATK on whether any suspicious transactions had been made during his service as a state official.
Yusuf said the PPATK had tracked Tito's financial transactions from banking reports as a secondary source of information. The agency, he said, recorded that Tito had 14 bank accounts between 2004 and 2014, all of which had been closed permanently. There were no suspicious transactions from the 14 bank accounts, he went on.
After that period, Yusuf said, Tito had three accounts at state-owned banks, two of which had been closed, while the remaining account remained active.
"Tito's wife has accounts in three banks and more than three insurance products. We didn't find anything peculiar," Yusuf explained, adding that the agency had also detected no suspicious transactions in the bank accounts of any of Tito's three children.
The House is set to conduct a confirmation hearing for Tito, the sole candidate for the National Police chief position, on Thursday. Commission III expects to finish Tito's screening this month and take the results to the House's plenary meeting next Tuesday.
National Police chief Gen. Badrodin Haiti is to retire this July, when he turns 58 years old. Article 30 ( 2 ) of the 2002 National Police Law stipulates that the maximum retirement age for National Police officers is 58 years old. (ebf)
