VIVAnews – Financial Transaction Report and Analysis Center (PPATK) announced a shocking finding. The agency found a fact that corruption is not only committed by senior officers, but also young civil servants.
PPATK said 10 young civil servants are found depositing billions of rupiahs in their bank account. The money is believed to have been accumulated from project funding.
Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK)’s Deputy Head, Haryono Umar, said the new regulation for civil servants to report their wealth to KPK is mandatory. All this time, only senior officers reported their wealth to KPK.
“We are asking that low-ranking civil servants to deliver their wealth report as well,” Haryono told VIVAnews, today, Dec 7.
“Moreover, KPK must be informed of any gratification.”
According to Haryono, this reporting is necessary to discover if there is any indication of corruption from all level of civil servants.
“State administrators have been the only parties who are obligated to report their wealth. In reality, low-ranking civil servants went unmonitored,” he explained.
Haryono said KPK has also received reports on the case of low-ranking civil servants having billions of rupiah worth of savings.
“We received some reports and data from LHKPN,” he said.
At the moment, Haryono said that only the Finance Ministry, Police and several State-Owned Enterprises such as Pertamina, Bank DKI, and Bank Jawa Barat (Jabar) which have expanded points on their wealth reports.
Last Tuesday, PPATK declared there are Grade III B civil servants identified as keeping billions of rupiahs on their bank accounts.
“There are two young men, III B level. Ages 28-38 years old working on a fictitious project and corrupted billions of rupiah,” said PPATK Vice President, Agus Susanto.
