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Sri Mulyani to work with Mahfud on suspicious transaction reports
Sri Mulyani said that only recently she had received reports on the suspicious transactions and upon closer inspection, she could not verify if Mahfud's claim was correct.
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Finance Minister Sri Mulyani gives a statement concerning the judicial review of Law No. 11/2016 on tax amnesty at the Constitutional Court in Jakarta on Sept. 20, 2016. (JP/Dhoni Setiawan)
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inance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said she would work closely with Coordinating Political, Security and Legal Affairs Minister Mahfud MD in handling a report that some Rp 300 trillion (US$19.4 billion) in suspicious transactions had been discovered within the ministry.
Sri Mulyani also said that only recently she had received reports on the suspicious transactions and upon closer inspection, she could not verify if Mahfud's claim was correct.
"I will work with Pak Mahfud. Please Pak Mahfud work with us. We must clean this up together," the finance minister told reporters on Thursday.
Mahfud said at an event at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta that the 300-trillion suspect transactions involved officials from the Taxation Directorate General and the Customs and Excise Directorate General.
The minister noted that he had shared the findings with Sri Mulyani and the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK).
