AGO Traces Suspicious Financial Transactions in Graft Suspect La Nyalla Probe

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By Jamil Maidan.

 

 

 

Jakarta. Investigators have been tracing suspicious transactions worth hundreds of billions of rupiah at more than 10 national bank accounts allegedly related to the recently arrested graft suspect La Nyalla Mattalitti, according to the Attorney General’s Office spokesman.

The AGO received data from the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK), which shows that the transactions took place between 2010 and 2014 when La Nyalla was appointed as chairman of the East Java Chamber of Trade and Industry.

The current Indonesian Football Federation (PSSI) chairman, who was deported from Singapore on Tuesday for having overstayed his visa, was named a suspect in late March for allegedly misappropriating Rp 5.3 billion ($394,700) from the East Java administration paid in grants in 2012 to the chamber.

 

“Aside from probing the corruption allegations, we will likely develop this case by turning into alleged money laundering,” AGO spokesman Mohammad Rum said on Friday (03/06). “We are currently in the process of freezing the accounts.”

 

La Nyalla, who had fled for Malaysia when he was named a graft suspect, was questioned at the AGO’s office on Wednesday, upon his arrival in Jakarta. He is currently serving detention in Salemba prison in Jakarta.

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Jamil Maidan

He has been speechwriter to the President and the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Indonesia from January 1992 to the present—a period of more than 22 years. He has served under five presidents (Suharto, Bacharuddin Habibie, Abdurrahman Wahid, Megawati Soekarnoputri, and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono) and four foreign ministers (Ali Alatas, Alwi Shihab, Noer Hassan Wirajuda and Marty M. Natalegawa). The late statesman Ali Alatas recruited him in late 1991. In this capacity, he is directly consulted on how best to present the foreign policy of Indonesia through speeches, interventions in conferences, correspondence and other forms of communication. He has attended all but a few of the summits and ministerial conferences of ASEAN from 1994 to the present as a member of the Indonesian delegation. From 1996 to the present, except in 2000, he has attended all United Nations General Assembly Sessions as Adviser to the Foreign Minister. In the same capacity he has attended summits of such international organizations as the G-20, APEC, the Non-aligned Movement (NAM) and the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM).

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