TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The National Police's investigator team traced illegal levies collected from ship permit applications following an operation launched on Tuesday, October 10, 2016.
"We will investigate everything related to money, bank accounts, and deposit accounts," National Police spokesperson Brig. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar said on Thursday, October 13, 2016.
The National Police will also work with the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK), as well as banks to trace the funds.
Earlier, a joint team consisting of the National Police and the Jakarta Police arrested six officials allegedly involved in illegal levies collection surrounding the ship permit application at the Transportation Ministry's Sea Transportation Directorate General. Three officials had been named as suspects.
Boy revealed that the investigation is still ongoing, and there a possibility of charging the suspects with money laundering crime. As many as seven people had been questioned as witnesses.
"Three of the witnesses have been named as suspects," Boy said.
Police seized six passbooks of bank accounts with funds totaling Rp 1 billion (US$73,000), allegedly used to pool the illegal levies.
MITRA TARIGAN
