"The cumulative number of suspicious financial transaction reports since 2003 has reached 74,614," the PPATK chief said after attending a function on the signing of a cooperation on the establishment of an anti-money laundering study center between Bank Indonesia and the faculty of law of the University of Indonesia here on Friday.
He said that up to June this year, the number of reports had reached 10,690 with an average report per month of 2,138 cases, which were higher than those per month in previous years.
The number of parties making the reports also increased from 334 companies in 2010 to 39 firms, consisting of 160 banks and 199 non banks.
For the bank part, the biggest number was reported by private banks while from the non bank, the biggest one was made by foreign exchange traders.
In terms of location, the biggest number of reports came from Jakarta with 3,335 cases, followed by Batam 2,683 and Tanjung Balai Karimun 97 reports.
Of the reports that have been collected, the PPATK made an analysis whose results showed that the biggest one was reports on corruption with 714 cases, fraud 434 and narcotics 61 cases.
According to Yunus, of the total reports made to the PPATK, 1,600 were submitted to police with 300 reports made based on police requests.
"But I cannot explain how many cases are now being being investigated and taken to the court," he said.
(Uu.A014/H-NG/S012)
Editor: Priyambodo RH
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