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Police, PPATK trace money in treason case
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Rachmawati Soekarnoputri visits residents in the Luar Batang area of North Jakarta on Apr. 27. Rachmawati was arrested on Friday on allegations of treason. (Kompas.com/Robertus Belarminus)
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span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Jakarta Police have enlisted the help of the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) in their investigating of funds for alleged subversive activities following multiple arrests and the naming of eight suspects last Friday.
"We have engaged the PPATK to investigate the flow of funds in this case," Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Raden Prabowo Argo Yuwono said at the Jakarta Police headquarters on Thursday.
Argo added that police had obtained strong evidence regarding funds connected to treason.
However, police needed time to study the evidence before revealing the parties who had funded the treasonous activity as well as those who had received the money, he said.
Argo added that the persons who had orchestrated the treason had not transferred the funds to the recipients in one go.
The transfer had been carried out gradually, so police needed to investigate it carefully, he said, adding that police could not yet specify the amount of funds involved.
"There are a lot of fund transactions. This is not like an accounting balance sheet, where you can directly get the amount of the money," he said.
Police arrested 11 political activists, including Rachmawati Soekarnoputri, the daughter of the country’s first president Sukarno, senior politician Sri Bintang, artist Ratna Sarumpaet and musician-turned-politician Ahmad Dhani early on Friday morning, hours before hundreds of thousands of people staged a rally against Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama. (jun)
