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JAKARTA - The finance division of the National Police arrested a customs officer and a Jakarta businessman on Tuesday on suspicion of their involvement in an organized corruption ring to circumvent state audits on imports, police said on Tuesday.
“We have arrested the suspects for corruption, bribery and money laundering related to import-export procedures,” the head of Bareskrim’s financial crimes department Brig. Gen. Arief Sulistyanto said at the National Police headquarters on Tuesday. “The perpetrators are a customs officer in Jakarta and a businessman.”
Heru Sulistiono, 46, a customs officer, was arrested at his ex-wife’s house in Serpong, Tangerang, while Yusran Arif was detained in Ciganjur, South Jakarta. Arief said Heru allegedly received Rp. 11.4 billion ($1 million) in the form of various insurance derivatives - the precise nature of which police have yet to confirm - from Yusran, a commissioner at Tanjung Jati Utama.
Heru is understood to have cashed in the financial products in 2011 and 2012. Police say he also received a Nissan Terano and Ford Everest from the businessman. “This is a new modus operandi in masking money laundering,” Sr. Cmr. Agung Setya, money-laundering chief at the National Police said on Tuesday.
Agung said that Yusran ran as many as 10 companies involved in shipping children’s toys and plastic goods. “The bribe was to avoid an audit by customs,” Agung said.
The case came to light after a report by the Financial Transaction Report and Analysis Center (PPATK) investigatedd a suspciious transaction last year. Tempo reported that based on PPATK records, Heru had Rp 60 billion in his saving account from 2009 to 2012, Tempo reported.
A total of 25 people have been questioned in the case. The police confiscated the cars, six mobile phones, one airsoft gun, two financial-product documents, an account book and several company documents.
Police are still investigating 11 bank accounts, two of which contained Rp 11 billion and Rp 2.5 billion. Separately Customs Directorate General at the Finance Ministry Agung Kuswandoro said that his office will wait on the reports from the National Police before taking actions.
“This is just an initial information that there is one customs official arrested by the National Police’s criminal investigation division,” Agung Kuswandoro, head of customs at the finance ministry, said on Wednesday. “We are still waiting for an official report from the police. Once we receive that, we will follow it up.”
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