OJK Supervises 5,000 Accounts Allegedly Related To Money Laundering

JAKARTA - The Financial Services Authority (OJK) also supervises owners of 5,000 banking accounts as an effort to Anti-Money Laundering and Prevention of Terrorism Financing (PPT APU).

Chairman of the OJK Board of Commissioners Mahendra Siregar revealed that the 5,000 accounts suspected of being related to money laundering and terrorism have been frozen.

Furthermore, Mahendra said, the list has also been included in the PPT APU Program Information System (SIGAP) application.

"OJK has made efforts to strengthen anti-money laundering supervision and prevent terrorism financing and take action against more than 5,000 frozen banking accounts and included in the SIGAP application," he said in a meeting with Commission XI of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Wednesday, June 26.

Mahendra said the 5,000 accounts would later be disseminated to banks.

The goal is to deepen the account holder profile.

"It is distributed to banks and further deepened the profile of account holders," he said.

For your information, money laundering and terrorism financing have indeed become the focus of the OJK and are part of the implementation of tasks related to supervision, law enforcement and licensing.

OJK has also revised the form of OJK Regulation Number 8 of 2023 concerning the Implementation of Anti-Money Laundering Programs, Prevention of Terrorism Financing, and Prevention of Funding for Proliferation of Mass Destruction Weapons in the Financial Services Sector.