REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Center for Financial Transaction Reporting and Analysis (PPATK) revealed that there were financial transactions for terrorism carried out by utilizing financial technology (Fintech) in the form of PayPal and Bitcoin account owned by of Bahrun Naim.

Bahrun Naim is a figure behind the bombings at Thamrin in 2016. Paypal is a kind of virtual payment tool that can be used for transactions by all Internet users in the world.

The Head of PPATK, Kiagus Ahmad Badaruddin, said Fintech used by many business owners to conduct transactions quickly and cheaply. However, because of its simplicity, it was also used to conduct illicit activities, such as terrorism. 

According to Badar, the transactions via Fintech are more difficult to trace. "It is indeed more difficult to trace the senders, but it does not mean you cannot do that," said Badar when presenting the priority program of PPATK 2017 in his office, on Monday.

He did not specify the recipients and how much money was sent by Bahrun Naim. He simply said that in 2017, PPATK will make special desk for Fintech monitoring, seeing that there is a great risk behind these technologies as a means of money laundering and terrorism funding.

PPATK noted, during the period of last five years, the reports of suspicious financial transactions associated with a criminal act of terrorism experienced an increasing trend. From January 2003 until November 2016, PPATK has delivered 105 results analysis of suspicious transactions related to terrorism to the investigator, which consists of 47 results of proactive analysis and 58 results of inquiry analysis.

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