Attorney General: “Money Laundering Still Difficult for AGO to Handle”
Monday, 29 January, 2007 | 16:45 WIB

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) is still experiencing difficulties in handling money laundering cases despite the Financial Transactions Reporting and Analysis Center (PPATKA) always providing carbon copies to the AGO in relation to money laundering.

“Authority over money laundering and the type of crime that it is still haven’t yet been determined as a criminal act of corruption,” said Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh, during a hearing with the House Law Commission, on Monday (29/1).

Rahman Saleh said currently the AGO continues to study money laundering criminal acts.

Up to now, he went on to say, the PPATK more often reports money laundering case to the police.

However, Rahman Saleh said, the AGO also feels it has the right to handle money laundering cases.

“A decree which emphasizes that money laundering is included in criminal acts of corruption is necessary,” he said.

In the mean time, Yasonna Laoli, House Law Commission, said that it was better for the AGO to have authority over the handling of money laundering cases.

The reason for this, he said, was that many of the money laundering sources were results of corruption.

Sandy Indra Pratama