Top cop investigated for money laundering

Top cop investigated for money laundering

Eva C. Komandjaja, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta

A general is among seven police officers facing an investigation
launched by detectives at the National Police for alleged money
laundering.

Head of the National Police internal affairs division Insp.
Gen. Yusuf Manggabarani said on Friday the investigation would
likely start on Monday when he submits the seven names to the
detectives.

Yusuf declined to identify the general, but said he held an
important position at the National Police Headquarters.

The general is the fourth to be implicated along with three
other regional police officers following a recent examination of
their bank accounts, where transfers of huge sums of money were
found.

In a a hearing with House of Representatives Commission III on
legal affairs last week, National Police chief Gen. Sutanto
revealed that three officers -- two active and one retired --
identified by their initials as Z, KM and MR were being
investigated by the internal affairs division due to suspicious
transactions in their bank accounts. One of them, whose name
Sutanto refused to disclose, is a retired general.

The police internal affairs division conducted the probe after
the Financial Transactions and Report Analysis Center (PPATK)
submitted a report on money laundering allegedly involved 15
police officers, including some generals.

The PPATK said in its report that suspicious transactions had
occurred in the bank accounts of the officers and that the amount
of money involved was "huge", much higher than the salaries of
even a police general.

Yusuf, who recently replaced Insp. Gen. Supriyadi after the
case came to the fore, said that internal affairs would continue
its investigation into the remaining eight officers listed by the
PPATK.