Finance Ministry to Check on Rp300tn Suspicious Transactions Mentioned by Mahfud MD

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Awan Nurmawan Nuh, Inspector General of the Ministry of Finance, responded to a remark from the Coordinating Minister for Politics, Law and Security Mahfud MD about suspicious transactions worth Rp300 trillion at the ministry. This finding was outside the Rp500 billion odd transactions recorded in the accounts of former Tax Directorate official Rafel Alun Trisambodo and his family.

"The Inspectorate General until now does not know about the Rp300 trillion. We have not received the information, we will check it later," he said in a press conference at the Finance Ministry Building in Jakarta, Wednesday, March 8.

Mahfud MD made the remark during an event at the Gadjah Mada University (UGM), Yogyakarta. "I got the latest report this morning about the suspicious movement of Rp300 trillion within the Ministry of Finance, most of which are in the Directorate General of Taxes and Customs," he said.

According to Mahfud, the findings have been reported to Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani and Head of PPATK Ivan Yustiavandana. He added that the KPK has also examined each and every one of the ministry's employees suspected of being related to the crime of money laundering.

"The other day it was found there were 69 people with [assets] worth more than a trillion – only in the hundreds of billions. Today we found more around Rp300 trillion. It has been traced and I told Sri Mulyani as well as the PPATK," said Mafhud, head of the Money Laundering Crime Control Team.

Mahfud ensured that the finding was not a hoax, and it was something that could not be hidden in the era of open information.

M Khory Alfarizi

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