Apart From Blocking IDR 3 Billion, The Police Criminal Investigation Unit Finds Billions Of 'Parking' Funds In Accounts Owned By The ACT Foundation

Head of the Public Relations Division of the National Police Public Relations Division Kombes Nurul Azizah/Rizky AP-VOI

JAKARTA - The Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police continues to investigate the assets of the Aksi Cepat Tanggap (ACT) charitable foundation related to the alleged misappropriation of donation funds. Recently, investigators confiscated money worth Rp. 3 billion which was stored in several accounts.

"The latest data from investigators has managed to secure or block a number of confiscated funds amounting to Rp3 billion in several ACT foundation accounts," said Head of the Public Relations Division of the National Police Public Relations Division Kombes Nurul Azizah to reporters, Tuesday, August 2.

Later, investigators also found Rp5 billion in money from an account affiliated with ACT. The money is in the stage of confiscation and blocking.

In fact, continued Nurul, investigators are also searching for 843 other ACT accounts. The goal is to investigate the flow of funds and the recipients.

"Searching 843 accounts from PPATK information related to the accounts of 4 suspects A, IK, HH, and NIA, the ACT foundation and its affiliates and other parties," said Nurul.

Nurul continued, based on the results of the coordination meeting with the Ministry of Social Affairs, investigators will investigate 777 ACT accounts to determine whether the accounts are registered or not.

"Clarifying and tracing 777 ACT foundation accounts to find out which accounts are registered and not registered with the Ministry of Social Affairs as the foundation's official accounts," said Nurul.

ACT misappropriated donations from Boeing for victims of the Lion Air JT-610 plane crash worth Rp34 billion.

Originally, Boeing provided aid funds for victims of the Lion Air JT-610 plane crash of around Rp138 billion. However, only Rp. 103 billion was used.

In this case, Ahyudin and Ibn Khajar have been named as suspects. They are former and President of ACT.

Then, investigators also named two other ACT officials as suspects. They had the initials H and NIA as members of the ACT advisors.

In this case, the suspects are suspected of Article 372 and 374 of the Criminal Code, Article 45a Paragraph 1 in conjunction with Article 28 Paragraph 1 of the ITE Law.

Then Article 70 Paragraphs 1 and 2 in conjunction with Article 5 of Law No. 28 of 2004 concerning foundations. As well as Articles 3, 4 and 5 concerning ML and Article 55 Jo 56 of the Criminal Code with the threat of 20 years in prison.