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An employee
at state-owned Bank Mandiri is under investigation for stealing billions of
rupiah, according to a police source, raising more troubling questions about
the safety measures in place at the country’s banks.
A source
close to the National Police’s criminal investigations unit said the case
involved a Bank Mandiri branch in Jambi, but details have not yet been
released.
“They [Bank
Mandiri] came to us but have not filed an official complaint. Maybe they are doing
some tracking first before they lodge an official report,” the source, who did
not want to be named, said on Saturday.
“It is
suspected that a person inside the bank is involved, and once it is officially
reported to us we’ll process the case and arrest the perpetrator.”
The source
said the suspected embezzlement occurred on Wednesday. Billions of rupiah were
transferred from an escrow account in the Jambi bank to an individual’s account
in Probolinggo, East Java, the source said.
“From
Probolinggo, within just a few minutes, the money was transferred again to an
account belonging to a gold dealer in Jakarta, who then transferred the funds
to his wife’s account,” the source said. “Maybe Rp 5.9 billion [$655,000] isn’t
a huge amount for Bank Mandiri, with its trillions in assets, but if this isn’t
followed up on, then it could cause new problems.”
When
contacted by the Jakarta Globe, Brig. Gen. Arief Sulistyanto, the National
Police’s director of special crimes, confirmed the embezzlement had been
discussed with the police, but declined to comment further.
“There
hasn’t been an official report to us, so I can’t say much,” Arief said.
In March
last year, the police announced that Inong Malinda Dee, a Citibank Indonesia
relationship manager, had been arrested for embezzlement. She was later
indicted for stealing $5 million from clients, and on Thursday prosecutors
asked the South Jakarta District Court to sentence her to 13 years in prison.
Also in
2011, Itman Hari Basuki, the head of a Bank Mega branch in Cikarang, Bekasi,
was allegedly involved in the theft of Rp 80 billion that had been deposited at
the bank by the Batubara district administration in North Sumatra.
The money
was allegedly invested in two financial management companies, Pacific Fortune
Management and Noble Mandiri Investment.
Prosecutors
have completed the case file on Itman and he is expected to go on trial soon.
Itman is
also a suspect in the embezzlement of Rp 111 billion from an account belonging
to oil services company Elnusa at the same bank branch.
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