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Finance Ministry fires eight employees for alleged money laundering
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The Finance Ministry building in Jakarta is pictured in this undated photo. (Courtesy of Finance Ministry/-)
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he government has dismissed eight Finance Ministry employees over their alleged efforts to conceal Rp 349 trillion (US$22 billion) worth of suspicious transactions that had occurred within the ministry over the course of years.
The government’s money laundering task force identified the eight employees after examining 300 Information Analysis Reports (LHA) and Investigative Audit Reports (LHP) from the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK), task force head Sugeng Purnomo told reporters on Monday.
Seven other employees were given disciplinary sanctions for their alleged roles in the scheme. Sugeng declined to provide further details on what the sanctions entailed.
“When the task force was formed, there was [a motivation] to punish Finance Ministry employees accused of violating the disciplinary regulations,” Sugeng said, as quoted by kompas.id.
He added that the task force had handed some of the cases over to the police and Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).
The government formed the task force in April with a mandate to supervise and evaluate the investigation into the Rp 349 trillion in suspicious transactions identified within the Finance Ministry. One of its priorities was examining the circumstances surrounding the import of Rp 189 trillion worth of gold bars, a case that came up during a hearing of the House of Representatives in March.
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