TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
PPATK reveals suspicious transactions allegedly linked to drug lord Freddy
Change Size
Guilty -- Security personnel secure drug lord Freddy Budiman (center) during his second case review in Cilacap, Central Java. Freddy was executed by firing squad, along with three other drug convicts, in the early hours of July 29. (JP/Agus Maryono)
T
he Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) has found an irregular flow of funds to low-ranking officials of Indonesia's security agencies allegedly linked to executed drug lord Freddy Budiman's narcotics networks, the center’s top official has said.
PPATK chairman Muhammad Yusuf said a number of low-ranking personnel with the National Police and the National Narcotics Agency (BNN), as well as non-commissioned military officers and penitentiary officials, were among those who received the funds.
"The amount of money transferred is not huge. Most of the discovered funds amount to tens of millions of rupiah. Only one transaction was worth hundreds of millions of rupiah. It's not significant, but, indeed, we have to take further actions," Yusuf told reporters on Thursday.
He added that the PPATK had submitted its findings to National Police chief Gen. Tito Karnavian.
Yusuf said the center’s investigation did not discover any suspicious transactions related to high-ranking personnel as Freddy had alleged in statements that were published by rights activist Haris Azhar one day before the drug lord’s execution on July 29. In his statements, Freddy claimed the involvement of officials from the military, the BNN and the National Police in his drug network. (ebf)
