The complexity of eradicating high corruption is not that it is a crime that is more difficult to fight than any other offense, but the entanglements of personal involvement and party interests — particularly when the practice is accepted as a norm rather than an exception.
This week there were ample examples of how daunting and seemingly distant this nation is from cleaning up its act.
The Financial Transactions Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) — the nation’s money laundering watchdog — alleged that dozens of civil servants still in their 20s or 30s had spliced illegal gains into their family bank accounts.
PPATK deputy chief Agus Santoso said the institution had recently submitted a report to law enforcers regarding the suspiciously large bank accounts belonging to dozens of young and low-ranking civil servants.
He admitted he was flabbergasted to find so many junior civil servants possessing such bloated accounts. But most shocking is the fact that most could remain untouched by the law since the PPATK as an institution can not prosecute civil servants given its function as a “financial intelligence unit” only.
According to Agus, since 2002 the PPATK has submitted 1,200 reports concerning suspiciously large accounts belonging to civil servants to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), the AGO and the police, but the response from those institutions has so far been unsatisfactory. “There was a case involving a civil servant that we reported in 2008. Since that time [the civil servant’s] career has soared,” Agus lamented.
Suspicions of personal entanglement also took an unexpected “romantic” turn this week in the midst’s of graft defendant Muhammad Nazaruddin’s latest counter-allegations.
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