Resumen de Prensa
30/05/2006
China e Indonesia unen sus fuerzas para luchar contra el blanqueo
de capitales (The Jakarta Post)
Indonesia is joining forces with China to fight money laundering
as most dirty money from the former ends up in the latter, a top
financial intelligence official says.
Financial Transaction Reports Analysis Center (PPATK) director
Yunus Hussein said Monday after signing an agreement with the China
Antimoney Laundering Monitoring and Analysis Center (CAMLMAC) that
collaboration with China in fighting money laundering was essential
to improving investigations into suspicious transactions involving
Indonesia and China.
Yunus said that currently, the four-year-old PPATK was seeking
CAMLMAC's help on one money laundering case in China.
"China has a more comprehensive database than we have, and
it adopts a much firmer approach to its industry as regards money
laundering, he said, adding that Indonesia could learn a lot from
China's experiences and expertise.
CAMLMAC director Ouyang Weimin said that the two countries would
fight money laundering and the financing of terrorism by exchanging
financial intelligence information, and assisting each other with
staff training and IT development.
Yunus said that between the start of January and May 12 this year,
his agency had received 1,130 reports of suspicious transactions.
Last year, the PPATK received 2,055 reports of suspicious transactions,
up sharply from only 838 in 2004 and 280 in 2003.
Since its establishment in 2003, the government-funded agency has
received a total of 4,441 reports of suspicious transactions, with
419 of these being forwarded to the police and prosecution service
for follow-up.
The six prosecutions brought so far in the Central Jakarta, South
Jakarta, Denpasar, and Kebumen, Central Java, district courts ended
with convictions.
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) removed Indonesia from its
list of non-cooperative countries last year.
The removal of Indonesia from the list by the Paris-based global
antimoney laundering watchdog, which was set up by the Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development, followed Indonesia's passing
of antimoney laundering legislation and the setting up of the PPATK.
Yunus said that following a recommendation from the FATF, the PPATK
would expand its list of institutions required to report suspicious
financial transactions believed to involve money laundering or corruption.
He said the agency, together with the government, was drafting
amendments to the 2003 Money Laundering Law, which would bring additional
types of business into the net.
"We will require law firms, accountancy firms, car dealers
and jewelry sellers to report suspicious financial transactions,"
he said.
Currently the agency only obliges banks and other financial institutions,
such as securities houses, currency dealers, pension funds, financing
companies, investment managers and insurance firms, to report dubious
transactions.
He said that the FATF could well put Indonesia back on its list
if the country did not improve the Money Laundering Law.
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