Bareskrim Calls 843 ACT Accounts And Affiliates Blocked

Head of the Public Relations Division of the National Police Public Relations Division Kombes Nurul Azizah (second from right)/DOC PHOTO: Rizky Adytia-VOI

JAKARTA - The National Police's Criminal Investigation Department said that 843 accounts of the Aksi Cepat Tanggap (ACT) charity have been blocked by the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK). Currently, hundreds of accounts were traced to investigate the flow of funds.

"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 Head of the Public Relations Division of the National Police Public Relations Division Kombes Nurul Azizah to reporters, Tuesday, August 2

"The status of the account was further blocked by investigators in accordance with the authority in the Money Laundering Law," he continued.

Investigators will also clarify 777 accounts belonging to ACT to the Ministry of Social Affairs (Kemensos). The goal is to sort out the charitable foundation's milim accounts that are registered and those that are not.

"Based on the results of the coordination meeting at the Ministry of Social Affairs, investigators will clarify and trace 777 accounts of the ACT foundation to find out which accounts are registered and which are not registered with the Ministry of Social Affairs as the foundation's official accounts," said Nurul.

ACT is suspected of misappropriating donation funds from Boeing for victims of the Lion Air JT-610 plane crash worth Rp34 billion.

Boeing provides aid funds for victims of the Lion Air JT-610 plane crash of around Rp. 138 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.

The suspects were charged with Articles 372 and 374 of the Criminal Code, Article 45a Paragraph 1 in conjunction with Article 28 Paragraph 1 of the ITE Law.

The suspect is also charged with Article 70 Paragraph 1 and 2 in conjunction with Article 5 of Law No. 28 of 2004 concerning foundations. As well as Articles 3, 4 and 5 regarding ML and Article 55 Jo 56 of the Criminal Code with the threat of 20 years in prison