House of Representatives politicians initiating an inquiry into Bank Century scandal have pledged to provide legal protection to the Financial Transactions Report and Analysis Center (PPATK) to unveil recipients of suspicious transfers of the bailout funds the bank has received.
Maruarar Siarit of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) said on Saturday the anti-money laundering body could disclose the suspicious transfers to the House’s special committee of inquiry.
“That’s what the inquiry is for. The forum is protected by the law. From the beginning we the initiators of the inquiry motion have provided legal protection to whoever wants to tell the truth,” Maruarar was quoted by kompas.com.
Maruarar and a number of House lawmakers from various factions met with former president Abdurrahman “Gus Dur” Wahid at the Nahdlatul Ulama office on Saturday to seek the latter’s support for the inquiry.
The initiators, called the Team of Nine, will invite PPATK chairman Yunus Husein for a meeting to hear from him legal barriers to efforts to unveil the recipients of the suspicious transfers.
The 2003 law on money laundering prohibits PPATK from revealing such bank transfers to the public.
The House will hold a plenary session on Dec. 1 to decide whether to approve an inquiry into the scandal. Speculation has been rife that some of the Rp 6.76 trillion bailout funds went to a political party linked to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to help him win reelection.
Yudhoyono and Vice President Boediono have denied the allegations.
Source: The Jakarta Post
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