"Investigators do not yet have the courage to use Article 5 of the Law on Money Laundering," the director for compliance supervision, Subiantoro, said at a workshop here on Wednesday.
Citing an example, he referred to the cases of tax corrupter Gayus Tambunan and Bahashim who had used the accounts of their wives and children to hide the funds they had collected through corruption.
"They should have used Article 5 on passive actors (to deal with such cases)," he said.
The article states that anyone receiving or controlling allocations, transfers, bequest, donations, deposits, exchanges or use of wealth he/she knows from alleged crimes may be jailed maximally five years and fined Rp1 billion. The article does not apply to the person reporting them.
Subiantoro said the mission of the articles was to make members of a family to remind each other against laundering money.
PPATK chief Yunus Husein meanwhile said the articles had already been used in a theft case in Jember, East Java.
"The account of a teacher from Jember has been used by his nephew who conducted theft in Cinere, Depok, West Java. He is now jailed," he said.
In response to it Subiantoro said he hoped investigators would use the article for dealing with Gayus`s wife and Bahashim`s children whose accounts have allegedly been used to keep their corrupted money.(*)
(H-YH/HAJM/a014)
Editor: Ruslan Burhani
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