REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- A member of the House of Representative oversight team for Bank Century case Bambang Soesatyo urged the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to start tracing the flows of money from the scandal hit bank to bring to the open the high profile corruption case.
"The oversight team will continue to press the anti graft body to follow the trace of the money and must not focus investigations only on abuse of power and breach of procedure," Bambang said.
The legal case began with a controversial Rp6.7 trillion bail out by Bank Indonesia of the minor bank, which was facing financial problem after its own owners fled taking away all cash including money belonging to its depositors before the presidential election in 1999.
KPK already named suspects two former deputy governors of the central bank. One of the two Budi Mulia, is already arrested and the other is sick and not yet available for investigations.
At that time the governor of the central bank was Boediono, now the vice president.
KPK already questioned Boediono twice and the oversight team planned to summon the vice president for explanation of his statement after the last questioning by KPK.
Bambang said in a hearing between KPK and the Commission III of the House of Representatives he had pointed to data found by the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) about the flows of the funds.
"At the hearing yesterday, Commission III already presented data from BPK about the flows of fund from the bank to a number of recipients," he said here on Thursday.
He said based on the data found by BPK, holders of 100,423 accounts, were illegally allowed to withdraw fund from the bank when it was in the status of bank under surveillance.
Billions of rupiahs were withdrawn from the bank when it was not allowed to conduct financial transactions, he said.
"Certainly it was a deliberate act allowing the bank to be robbed.
"Another strange thing found by BKP was there were new accounts opened under fictitious holders, and were closed immediately after receiving money withdrawn from the bank," he said.
He recalled what had been said by former police chief detective Susno Duadji that there were also big flows of funds from one account to another.
"There was even fund flowing to an account of a taxi driver," he said quoting the disgrace police general as saying.
"It was a form of money laundering, an attempting to cover a crime." he added.
He said the Commission III of the House of Representatives had once urged KPK to seek information from the former head of police detective and criminal department.
"The question is whether KPK has followed up the BPK finding," he said.
Bambang also asked the Financial Transaction Analysis and Reporting Center (PPATK) to help KPK collect more data about the flows of the bail out fund from the Century Bank.
PPATK needs to open the data more clearly as the data given earlier by PPATK to the Special Committee for Bank Century were not complete, he said.
"The data given to us (the Special Committee) were already consolidated and neatly straightened up. We demand the new PPATK chief to reopen the data to show them as they are. Until when the PPATK to cover this rottenness?" he queried.
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