Large-Scale BTS Tower Graft Money Tracked Down: PPATK
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27 June 2023 23:34 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) has continued its inquiry on the flow of corruption involving the construction of the 4G base transceiver station, or BTS, project. The nationwide project was conducted by the Communication and Informatics Ministry’s Telecommunication and Information Accessibility Body (Bakti Kominfo).
The PPATK director of analysis and inquiry, Beren Rukur Ginting, said that a multitude of money changers was expected to have been the recipients of the corruption flow from the BTS project. However, he maintained that efforts will be focused on the bank accounts linked to Bakti Kominfo.
“Many of the transaction flows were directed to a number of money changers. Whether it has anything related to the project’s activities or not, that is what we are looking into,” Ginting elaborated in Bogor on June 27.
Despite acknowledging there is a multitude of parties allegedly receiving the flow of money, he is yet able to confirm whether it has been wired to the company owned by the husband of House Speaker Puan Maharani, PT Basis Utama Prima, as it is rumored.
As previously reported, the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) named the president director of PT Basis Utama Prima Muhammad Yusrizki Mulyawan as a suspect in the Communication and Informatics Ministry’s BTS corruption.
The company is 99 percent owned by Happy Hapsoro, the husband of House Speaker Puan Maharani, who had allegedly according to reports accepted Rp50 billion and US$ 2.5 million in relation to the BTS corruption case which was estimated to cost Rp8 trillion in state losses.
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