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Weird Account of General

Holding a long-sleeved batik shirt pocket, the Commissioner-General Ito Sumardi asked, "How much salary a three-star general like me?" Smiling, Head of Criminal Investigation Agency of the Indonesian Police Headquarters had answered his own question, "Only nine million Rupiah, has included a number of benefits."

Ito added, Chief of Police, the highest officials in the institution, paying only about Rp 23 million, already including various allowances. For handling cases cost, he continued, the police only get a budget of Rp 20 million per case. Every police-sector policing unit at the district level, were given only two cases per year budget. "The rest must find its own budget," said Inspector General Dikdik Mulyana, Deputy Head of Criminal Investigation, which accompany Ito when an interview with Tempo, Friday last week.

I m Not complaining, Ito deliver "kitchen affairs" that police officials rebut accusations made against a number of officers who are alleged to have suspicious accounts. Documents containing the financial traffic police officers were outstanding in the hands of police officers and so the material in Trunojoyo -Police Headquarters as gossip. Mentioned that the document is a summary of the report analyzes the results of Center Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis (PPATK). Problem was, a spokesman of PPATK, Natsir Kongah, refused comment. "I can not confirm because it authorization of an investigator," he said, Thursday last week.

According to a copy of the document, the six officers and a number of intermediate officers conduct "transactions that do not fit the profile" alias exceeds their monthly salary. Most large transactions made on accounts owned by the Inspector General Budi Gunawan, Head of Profession and Security Division of Police. In 2006, through a private account and the account of his son, a former aide to President Megawati Sukarnoputri was getting paid Rp 54 billion, among others, from a property company.

The same list includes, among others, the name of the Commissioner General Susno Duadji, former Chief of Criminal Investigation Agency who is now detained as suspects in corruption cases. There is also the East Kalimantan Regional Police Chief Inspector General Matthew Salempang, former Head of Mobile Brigade Corps Inspector General Sylvanus Wenas Julian, Inspector General Bambang Suparno, Colonel Edward Pernong Shah, also Kolonel Umar Leha.

Asked for confirmation about the names of account owners by police generals, Ito Sumardi indirectly confirmed. According to him, the officers included in the list of 21 officers suspicious account. He said it had received orders from Police Chief Gen Bambang Hendarso Danuri doing such a clarification of the officers. "This is backward to fo forward tracer, so they become a burden to explain the origin of the transaction," he said.

Stories about weird account of the general police force had also emerged at the end of July 2005. At that time, 15 the police officers alleged to have unnaturally account. Contained in documents submitted to the Head of PPATK Yunus Husein, General Sutanto, Chief of Police at that time, some police officials suspected of receiving large amounts of cash flow and from an unnatural source. An account even rumored to hold the funds of Rp 800 billion. But this case is lost in the wind.

BUILDING it looks great compared to most surrounding areas. Located at Jalan M. Kahf I, Jagakarsa, South Jakarta, one of the main house, three additional houses, plus one for the building security guard standing in the land area of 3000 square meters.


On the home page displayed characters shaped carved a "B" as high as two meters. Water is sufficiently large pool in the backyard reflect the sun shining. The neighbors called the building a "house of Pak police chief." This is the home of the Inspector General Badrodin Haiti, who had become head of North Sumatera Regional Police.

Badrodin, who is currently Chief of Police Legal Development Division, is one among a number of officers conducting suspicious transactions. According to a Tempo source, Badrodin buy insurance policies PT Prudential Life Assurance premiums Rp 1.1 billion. Mentioned cash premium payment from a third party.

Became head of the Medan District Police in 2000 until 2003, Badrodin also attract Rp 700 million in cash at the Central Bank Main Branch of Bukit Barisan, Medan, in May 2006. This transaction, sources said earlier, is considered "not fit her profile. Because, Badrodin income every month ranging between Rp 22 million, consisting of Rp 6 million salary, Rp 6 million in income from the business, and Rp10 million from investing activities.
Result analysis of Badrodin account the exist of the deposit fund Rp 50 million routine each month in the period January 2004-July 2005. There were also deposited funds Rp 120-343 million. In the report mentioned that the deposits do not have a clear underlying transaction.
Asked for confirmation, Badrodin Haitian claimed no authorities to answer. "That is entirely the authority of the Head of Criminal Investigation," he said. Commissioner-General Ito Sumardi declared his team was still awaiting some supplementary documents from Badrodin.
The weird account is also found on Wenas account, Bambang Suparno, Matthew Salempang, and Susno Duadji and a number of secondary officers. Indication on account Wenas appeared in 2005 when he served as Head of Regional Police of East Kalimantan. On August 9, the content flowing move Wenas account Rp 10.007 billion to the account of someone who claims to be Director of Hinroyal Golden Wing. Since the first open an account, banking transactions Wenas just a transfer in from other parties without any business transaction (see "Account in the Spotlight").

"Profiles" Wenas flashy enough. His home in New Areman Housing, Monument, luxury, above a thousand square meters of land. Since three years ago, Wenas family moved into a house in the Housing Enchantment Khayangan, Depok. Tempo, which visited Wenas homes in elite housing in Depok, on Thursday last week, saw two sedans and one Toyota Alphard Toyota Camry parked in the yard.
Tempo Who interviewed him, Wenas rejected accusations of illegal transactions through the account. "All that is not true," he said. "the account is not mine."
Susno Duadji, who industriously dismantle mafia practice of law in its institutions, it also has a suspicious transaction. Former Head of the Criminal Investigation Police are acknowledged receiving funds transfers from an attorney initials JS Rp 2.62 billion. He has also taken delivery of funds from a U.S. businessman and initials IZM (Head of Bengkulu Public Works Department). During the period 2007-2009, Susno has received submissions from three people that filthy lucre Rp 3.97 billion. Related to this funding stream, Police Headquarters has set a JS as a suspect.
Muhammad Assegaf, Susno legal counsel, said never talked about his client had a suspicious transaction. On various occasions prior to arrest, Susno repeatedly denied any transactions that violate the rules. "All the transactions were civil," he said.

NOT only high-ranking officers, who make the transaction was carried out wide-eyed policeman with the rank below it. Leha Umar example, last held the rank of commissioner and had served 12 years as Head of Section Letter SAMSAT Vehicle registration plates of the South Sulawesi Provincial Police.
According to a Tempo source, Omar in June 2005 has a fund of Rp 4.5 billion. Money saved in mutual funds and deposits at Bank Mandiri. The source of funds, according to transaction analysis, probably derived from the deposits associated with the management of vehicle registration.

In Makassar, Omar has two big houses and four cars. Two years ago the police officers was first run in the election Enrekang Regent, South Sulawesi. To that end, he resigned from the police with the rank of police commissioner last adjunct. At the election of regional head, he failed.

Accusations about playing while still serving, Umar denied this. He admitted that he never directly manage the maintenance of state money from vehicle registration. "After taking it," he said. "I really do not dare to abuse the trust it."
Account Pernong Edward Shah, District Police Chief Big City of Semarang, was invited suspicion. According to a Tempo source, when he is Head of West Jakarta Police Resort, he received a deposit of Rp 470 million and Rp 442 million in August and September 2005 from Deutsche Bank. On 15 September 2005, he closed the account with a balance of Rp 5.39 billion last. Edward questioned the origin of the data. "Data is a lie. It's slander," he told reporters Tempo, Sohirin, in Semarang, on Thursday last week. Ito Sumardi said he did not question the wealth of Edward. "He's the king of Lampung, a garden area of its oil," said Ito.

Although contested from various sides, the Police Commission member, Adnan Pandupradja, assessing allegations of suspicious transaction reports should receive serious attention from the Chief of Police. Without clarity of the accounts were an investigation, he said, the image of the police will be worse off.

Neta S. Pane, Chairman of the Indonesian Police Watch, encourages efforts to reverse proof of the officers who have suspicious accounts. Because, he expressed general who has abundant wealth is questionable. He added, "If life is only from wages, until the end of the world they will never be rich."