Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menkopolhukam) Mahfud MD suspects Finance Minister Sri Mulyani does not receive valid data regarding suspicious transactions worth IDR 349 trillion at the Ministry of Finance due to the closure of data access by the Minister of Finance's subordinates.
"From Mrs. Sri Mulyani's statement earlier, I want to explain the fact that there was an misunderstanding and explanation because the actual access was closed from below, so what she explained earlier was the data received on the 14th when she met Mr. Ivan," Mahfud said in a Public Hearing Meeting (RDPU) with Commission III and the National Committee for Prevention and Eradication of TPPU at the Parliament Complex, Jakarta, Antara, Wednesday, March 29.
He explained that in a meeting with the Ministry of Finance and PPATK when asked about the Rp189 trillion, Sri Mulyani admitted that she was not aware of the data.
"When asked by Mrs. Sri Mulyani, how come there is Rp. 189 trillion. Those are high-ranking officials with echelon 1, 'oh, there is no mother, never there'. Mr. Ivan said there was, then he 'oh yes, he will look for it," said Mahfud.
Hal ini kemudian dijelaskan sebagai dugaan pencucian uang yang dilakukan di Direktorat Bea Cukai dengan 15 entitas. Kendati demikian, laporannya diubah menjadi pajak, sehingga ketika diteliti ada banyak ditemukan harta yang harus dibayar pajaknya.
"Even though this is the excise case, what is gold. Gold imports come expensive, but in the excise document it is called raw gold, PPATK is investigated where you are, gold has become, why say raw gold? This is raw gold but printed in Surabaya," said Mahfud.
After being searched for Surabaya, said Mahfud, it had nothing to do with the money being examined by PPATK. According to him, PPATK has "caught" the alleged money laundering since 2017 and was immediately reported to the Ministry of Finance through the Director General of Customs and Excise and Inspector General of the Ministry of Finance.
"Two years did not appear, 2020 was sent again not to Mrs. Sri Mulyani, so we asked when we gave it and explained what was wrong," said Mahfud.
On the other hand, he mentioned that the number of entities involved from the Ministry of Finance was around 491 people. He emphasized that Rafael should not involve Rafael Alun in this case because he was involved in a different case.
"The Rp189 trillion case is for 15 entities but only 1 entity has been issued," he said.
Previously, Sri Mulyani revealed that the majority of the funds from suspicious transactions amounted to IDR 349 trillion, which was indicated as a money laundering crime (TPPU) not related to the Ministry of Finance (Kemenkeu).
"So what will really be related to the Ministry of Finance employees is Rp3.3 trillion from 2009 to 2023, 15 years all credit debit transactions from all the employees who were involved earlier," said the Minister of Finance in a working meeting with Commission XI of the DPR in Jakarta, Monday.
Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani said the transaction value of IDR 3.3 trillion was an accumulation of credit debit transactions of Ministry of Finance employees including official income, transactions with family, and sale and purchase of assets for the period 2009-2023 which had been followed up.
Even in the Rp3.3 trillion fund, there was also a letter related to the clearance of employees used in the context of promotional transfer or fit and proper test.
"So yes, it's not related to criminal, corruption or anything, but if we were to check the profile of the risk from our employees. So a lot of things are in the context of us doing tests of the integrity of our staff," he said.
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