Bareskrim Disbursed The Pattern Of The Alleged Money Laundering Case Of Panji Gumilang

Director of Special Economic Crimes (Dittipideksus) Bareskrim Polri Brigadier General Pol. Whisnu Hermawan (center) (photo: dock. intermediate)

Bareskrim Polri revealed the pattern allegedly used by Panji Gumilang in committing the crime of money laundering (TPPU). Starting from constructuring, layering, to luring.

The money laundering pattern allegedly carried out by the head of the Al Zaytun Islamic Boarding School was conveyed by the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) in the case title process which took place on Wednesday, August 16.

"In the process of holding the case, friends from PPATK described the pattern of money laundering transactions, so the conclusion is that investigators agree to increase the investigation process into an investigation," said the Director of Special Economic Crimes at Bareskrim, Police Brigadier General Whisnu Hermawan, Thursday, August 17.

The patterns allegedly carried out by Panji Gumilang are structure, layering, and lingling. Referring to the PPATK document, structure is one of the modes of money laundering, namely efforts to avoid reporting by breaking transactions so that the number of transactions becomes smaller.

While Layering, it is defined as separating the proceeds of criminal acts from the source, namely related crime activities through several stages of financial transactions. In this case, there is a process of transferring funds from several certain accounts or locations as a result of placement to other places through a series of complex transactions designed to disguise / hide the source of the illicit money.

Meanwhile, Placement is a phase to place money generated from a crime activity, for example by breaking large amounts of cash into small amounts that are not striking to be placed in a financial system either by using a bank deposit account, or used to buy a number of financial instruments (for example checks or giro) that will be billed and then deposited in a bank account located in another location.

Placement can also be done with the physical movement of cash, either through smuggling cash from a country to another, and combining cash originating from crimes with money obtained from the proceeds of legitimate activities.

Meanwhile, Mingling is also one of the modes of money laundering, namely mixing funds resulting from criminal acts with funds from the results of legal business activities with the aim of blurring the source of the funds.

The transaction pattern is explained by a structure, namely structure, so the money is broken into other entities. There are layering, there are mingling or mixing official or halal money into non-halal money, "said Whisnu.

With this pattern, investigators believe that Panji Gumilang has committed money laundering. So, with sufficient preliminary evidence, it was agreed that the status of the case would go up to investigation.

"So the patterns were conveyed by friends from PPATK, so we from the investigation team have agreed that this pattern is a pattern of transactions for money laundering," said Whisnu.

Meanwhile, in the case title, there are three criminal acts of origin (TPA) behind the money laundering offense allegedly committed by Panju Gumilang, namely embezzlement, foundation crime, and corruption of School Operational Assistance (BOS) funds.

Thus, Panji Gumilang is suspected of violating Article 3 of Law Number 8 of 2020 concerning the Crime of Money Laundering which carries a penalty of 20 years.

Then, the Criminal Code of the Article 70 Foundation in conjunction with Article 5 of Law Number 28 of 2004 concerning amendments to Law Number 16 of 2021. The penalty is 5 years in prison

The crime of embezzlement of Article 372 of the Criminal Code carries a penalty of 8 years and a criminal act of corruption under Article 2 of the Corruption Eradication Law.