JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – The Anti-Money Laundering Agency (PPATK) found suspicious transactions from incumbent lawmaker candidates and delivered the data to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).
PPATK Deputy Chief Agus Santoso, however, was reluctant to reveal more details about the identity of the incumbent lawmaker candidates alleged of commiting suspicious transactions. Agus only noted the value of the suspicious transactions is huge.
KPK Deputy Chief Busyro Muqoddas confirmed that KPK has received the report from PPATK about suspicious transactions from incumbent lawmaker candidates.
As reported earlier, PPATK along with KPK and the General Election Commission (KPU) had signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to monitoring and combating illegal campaign finance by all contestants of April’s Legislative and July’s Presidential Elections.
About 12 eligible political parties, 6,606 lawmaker candidates, and 945 senator candidates have participated in the April’s Legislative Election. While around 90 percent from the current lawmaker and 76 percent from the current senators are re-run in the election. (haryantos@yosefardi.biz)