Get Ready! Customs And Excise Becomes Mahfud MD's First Target To Dismantle The Ministry Of Finance's Scandal

Illustration (Photo: Doc. Ministry of Finance)

Chairman of the National Coordination Committee for Prevention and Eradication of Money Laundering (TPPU Committee) Mahfud MD stated his commitment to follow up on suspicious transactions that occurred at the Ministry of Finance (Kemenkeu).

"The committee will soon form a Joint Team/Satgas that will supervise to follow up on the whole," he said during a press conference in Jakarta on Monday, April 10.

According to Mahfud, based on the PPATK report, there was an aggregate value of Rp. 349 trillion related to the Ministry of Finance.

From this figure, the team will carry out case building (building cases from the start) by prioritizing the largest value, which is IDR 189 trillion.

"The committee will carry out case building by prioritizing the most valuable LHP because it has become a public concern," he said.

Just so you know, this amount of Rp. 189 trillion is an aggregate that appears in gold export/import transactions handled by the Directorate General of Customs and Excise of the Ministry of Finance since 2016.

VOI noted that the chronology began on January 21, 2016 when the Customs and Excise (BC) staff in Soekarno-Hatta found a company that wanted to export 218 kg of gold with a foreign exchange value of 6.8 million US dollars.

In the document, it is called the export of jewelry but it turns out that the ingot (gold bullion) is considered to have elements of customs crime.

Meanwhile, the special task force initiated by Mahfud consisted of elements of PPATK, Directorate General of Taxes, Directorate General of Customs and Excise, Bareskrim Polri, Pidsus AGO, Supervision of OJK, BIN, and Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal and Security Affairs.