he Finance Ministry’s Taxation Directorate General clarified on Monday that no individuals from the Indonesian Military (TNI) were involved in the transfer of US$1.4 billion through multiple accounts managed by United Kingdom-based bank Standard Chartered.
Responding to media reports that individuals with links to the military had wired $1.4 billion of private bank client assets from Guernsey to Singapore, Taxation Director General Ken Dwijugiasteadi said on Monday that the assets in question were owned by 81 Indonesian individuals whom he referred to as “purely businesspeople.”
“Of the 81 Indonesian citizens, there is no name from the Indonesian Military, National Police, other law enforcement [institutions], state officials or [other names] that is linked to those institutions,” Ken said in a press briefing held on Monday evening.
Ken said all transactions performed were related to business and none were linked to military activities, such as arms procurement.
The Directorate General of Taxation however did confirm that the amount of money transferred had reached $1.4 billion and involved 81 individuals, who moved their savings from accounts registered in Jersey and Guernsey to Singapore.
Of the number, 62 individuals had joined the tax amnesty program and the tax office is currently looking into their data to ascertain whether the funds in question had already been declared in their tax amnesty reports.
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