TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) is monitoring Rp8.26 trillion worth of transactions related to illegal investment accounts. This value was found after examining 375 reports received by PPATK.

"The transactions related to illegal investments are from parties linked to offers of illegal forex investments, fireblast, affiliates and so on," PPATK chair Ivan Yustiavandana said in a press conference Thursday, March 10.

The PPATK had suspended 121 accounts suspected of illegal investment transactions. Ivan said the 121 accounts were owned by 49 parties in 56 Financial Service Providers.

PPATK also noted there have been unreported purchases of luxury goods, which is a violation of Law no. 8/2010. Ivan said that based on database exploration so far, the PPATK has not found any report from the providers of goods and services.

In that context, PPATK continues to coordinate with Police's Criminal Investigation Unit to investigate possibilities of money laundering.

Ivan also said that illegal investment actors monitored by PPATK have made outgoing and incoming transactions from overseas.

"We found that there were several transactions related to foreign parties, both transactions from abroad to Indonesia or the other way around; from Indonesia to abroad such as Singapore, Australia, America, and then China," Ivan said.

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Muhammad Hendartyo