Ridwan Max Sijabat, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
Paralleling an investigation by the Attorney General's Office, the
National Police are assuming a proactive role in tracking down the
assets of Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra believed to have been derived
from money laundering.
Deputy chief of National Police Comr. Gen. Makbul Padmanegara said
Tuesday the police were investigating the assets of the youngest son
of former president Soeharto, which are being held in several
companies, including his overseas-based Motorbike Corp.
"The police will continue hunting for Tommy's illegal assets,
including the 36 million euros he allegedly laundered by depositing
the funds in the Bank Nationale de Paris Paribas in London," Makbul
told a Regional Representatives Council (DPD) hearing here.
"We are investigating where he obtained the money from. We are also
still looking for supporting evidence from a number of companies in
which the money had allegedly been invested," he said.
While the National Police have just recently initiated their
investigation, the AGO has been intensively investigating the matter
under the leadership of the then-attorney general Abdul Rahman Saleh.
The office said recently it was also investigating alleged corruption
in connection with Tommy's role in the liquidated Clove Marketing and
Buffer Agency (BPPC) and the now-dissolved PT Timor Putra National.
Tommy, 44, got an early release from prison in October 2006 after
serving only one third of a 15-year jail term for ordering the July
2001 murder of a Supreme Court justice.
Former state secretary Yusril Ihza Mahendra and former minister of
justice and human rights affairs Hamid Awaluddin were recently sacked
from the cabinet partly because of their alleged role in helping
Tommy
withdraw the money from the French bank.
Makbul called on the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis
Center
(PPATK) to speed up its investigation into Tommy's assets and hand
over its findings to the police so they could follow them up in
accordance with the law.
He also called on the DPD and the House of Representatives to clarify
the roles of PPATK and the police in their deliberation of the bill
on
money laundering in order to avoid overlapping investigations into
money laundering cases.
"To us, PPATK has the authority to carry out preliminary
investigations into money laundering cases, while the official
investigations into such cases should be left for law enforcers,
including the police and the Attorney General's Office," he said.
============ ========= =====
http://www.fajar. co.id/news. php?newsid= 35654
Paralleling an investigation by the Attorney General's Office, the
National Police are assuming a proactive role in tracking down the
assets of Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra believed to have been derived
from money laundering.
Deputy chief of National Police Comr. Gen. Makbul Padmanegara said
Tuesday the police were investigating the assets of the youngest son
of former president Soeharto, which are being held in several
companies, including his overseas-based Motorbike Corp.
"The police will continue hunting for Tommy's illegal assets,
including the 36 million euros he allegedly laundered by depositing
the funds in the Bank Nationale de Paris Paribas in London," Makbul
told a Regional Representatives Council (DPD) hearing here.
"We are investigating where he obtained the money from. We are also
still looking for supporting evidence from a number of companies in
which the money had allegedly been invested," he said.
While the National Police have just recently initiated their
investigation, the AGO has been intensively investigating the matter
under the leadership of the then-attorney general Abdul Rahman Saleh.
The office said recently it was also investigating alleged corruption
in connection with Tommy's role in the liquidated Clove Marketing and
Buffer Agency (BPPC) and the now-dissolved PT Timor Putra National.
Tommy, 44, got an early release from prison in October 2006 after
serving only one third of a 15-year jail term for ordering the July
2001 murder of a Supreme Court justice.
Former state secretary Yusril Ihza Mahendra and former minister of
justice and human rights affairs Hamid Awaluddin were recently sacked
from the cabinet partly because of their alleged role in helping
Tommy
withdraw the money from the French bank.
Makbul called on the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis
Center
(PPATK) to speed up its investigation into Tommy's assets and hand
over its findings to the police so they could follow them up in
accordance with the law.
He also called on the DPD and the House of Representatives to clarify
the roles of PPATK and the police in their deliberation of the bill
on
money laundering in order to avoid overlapping investigations into
money laundering cases.
"To us, PPATK has the authority to carry out preliminary
investigations into money laundering cases, while the official
investigations into such cases should be left for law enforcers,
including the police and the Attorney General's Office," he said.
============ ========= =====
http://www.fajar. co.id/news. php?newsid= 35654
No comments:
Post a Comment