Century Scandal: CENTURY INQUIRY C`TTEE FOCUSING ON 11 `MYSTERIOUS` ACCOUNTS

Jakarta Forum - Jakarta, The House Bank Century Inquiry Committee is to gather more information on the profiles of 11 "mysterious" Bank Century clients whose accounts the bank`s management had kept secret, a spokesman said.

"We are suspicious of 11 mysterious account holders at Bank Century because they very frequently made transactions in huge amounts," Committee member Hendrawan Supratikno said at the parliament building here Wednesday.

The committee was also suspicious because the bank`s management appeared to have tried to keep the 11 customers` accounts secret by not listing them in its recapitulation reports to Bank Indonesia (central bank) and the National Police`s criminal investigation department (Bareskrim), Hendrawan said.

The owners of the mysterious accounts included individuals whose initials were JH, DS, and MT, and a legal entity named PT AJP.

"We have asked the State Audit Board (BPK) and the Transaction Analyses and Reporting Center (PPATK) to gather more information on the profiles of the owners of the 11 bank accounts," said Hendrawan, a member of the Indonesian Democracy Party-Struggle (PDIP) faction in the House.

The Committee had given the BPK a few days to come up with more data on the mysterious account holders before its various party factions formulate their final conclusions next week.

Another Committee member, Andi Rahmat of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) faction, said the owners of the 11 bank accounts had transacted very intensively, namely at a rate of up to tens of times within a month`s time with single amounts reaching up to Rp Rp1.9 trillion.

"These were very large amounts but neither BI nor the police had detected them because the bank`s management had never reported them," he said.

BPK chief Hadi Purnomo had said at a consultative meeting with the House Committee on Tuesday (Feb 9) BPK would immediately take follow-up action in response to the Committee`s request to collect more data on the owners of the 11 suspicious bank accounts.

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