Inspector General Of The Ministry Of Finance Admits Receiving 266 Odd Transaction Letters From PPATK

Office complex of the Ministry of Finance (Photo: Doc. Ministry of Finance)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Finance through the Inspector General of the Ministry of Finance, Awan Nurmawan Nuh, revealed that the Ministry of Finance had received 266 letters from the Financial Analysis and Transaction Report Center (PPATK) regarding suspicious transactions within the ministry. He added that the letter was received in the period 2007 to 2023. "There are 266.185 letters at the request of the Inspector General and 81 PPATK initiatives," he told VOI, Saturday, March 11. The number of employees mentioned in the PPATK letter is 964 employees. Meanwhile, regarding the steps taken by the Ministry of Finance to follow up on the letter, 86 letters were followed up with follow-up activities in the form of collecting materials and information (pulbaket). He explained that there were 352 employees of the Ministry of Finance who were subject to disciplinary action and 31 letters could not be followed up because the employees were retired, there was no information or non-Ministry of Finance employees. "Delegated and followed up by law enforcement officers as many as 16." he explained. The determination of employee risk profiles at the Ministry of Finance is based on parameters including complaints and valid, suspicious financial transaction information, other information from the media or social media, integrity violations and irregularities in wealth reporting. In his statement, Awan was reluctant to specify the form of violations and cases that caused his employees to be prosecuted by APH. He also did not disclose the suspicious transactions revealed by the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD. Previously, Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani also admitted that she had received a letter related to suspicious transactions from the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) but she had not seen the Rp300 trillion figure in question. "Regarding Rp. 300 trillion, I frankly haven't seen it because in the letter there is no figure. Later, when I return to Jakarta, I will talk again with Mr. Mahfud and Mr. Ivan (Head of PPATK) where did the figures come from? So I have the same information as the media and the public," he explained. Mahfud conveyed a suspicious transaction of Rp. 300 trillion. The findings, said Mahfud, were outside the Rp500 billion transaction from the account of former Directorate General of Taxes Rafael Alun Trisambodo and his family who had been frozen by PPATK.