"We arrested another Citibank employee, identified by her initial as D, at her residence in Bintaro area this morning at 04.00 a.m.," Head of the Public Relations Division at the Indonesian Police Headquarters Insp. Gen. Anton Bachrul Alam said here on Tuesday.
Anton said D who was employed as a teller was believed to have assisted the suspect, identified by his initials as MD, who was now being held in custody.
"The number of suspects will likely increase," he said.
MD who is the bank`s president director is the superior of D.
Police had so far interrogated a total of 13 witnesses consisting of 10 employees of the bank and 3 victims, he said.
Police had confiscated transaction documents and a car as evidence, he said.
He said the suspect had purposely obscured transactions and wrongly recorded a sum of money in a number of transfer slips.
"Transfer slips were used to transfer a sum of money from customers` accounts to perpetrators` accounts without prior permit from the customers," he said.
The money laundering practice inflicted Rp17 billion in losses and the figure might increase after an audit was conducted, he said.(*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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