"We have so far submitted reports on only 1,600 cases to law enforcers," PPATK senior official Salahuddin Akbar said at a seminar on prevention of and combating money laundering here Monday.
Yet, he said, in just one day the center could receive hundreds of reports on financial transactions of potentially suspicious nature.
But on deeper investigation, many of the reported transactions proved to be legitimate and proper, he said.
In the past week, the center had received 60,000 reports on financial transactions, Salahuddin said.
Earlier, PPATK chief Muhammad Yusuf had said the center had found suspicious financial transactions made under the names of 53 echelon I government officials who were about to be installed in certain positions.
"We found the names of 53 echelon-I officials who were about to be appointed to certain positions in several ministries as the makers of suspicious transactions. But a deeper investigation is needed to determine whether or not the transactions are linked to unlawful acts," he said.
The deeper investigation had to be done in collaboration with the government ministries concerned, namely the state apparatus and bureaucracy reform ministry, the state enterprises ministry, and the office of the minister/state secretary.
"Through the deeper investigation, it will be known whether or not the officials concerned committed corruption or money laundering," he said. (*)
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