Jakarta Globe – The news magazine that police allegedly did not want people to see hit newsstands in Jakarta on Tuesday, a day after mystery men reportedly purchased 30,000 copies of the magazine in a clumsy and failed attempt to prevent its distribution.
The latest issue of weekly magazine Tempo features a cover article titled "Rekening Gendut Perwira Polisi" ("Fat Bank Accounts of Police Officers"), which investigates how a number of police generals came to be in possession of private bank accounts totaling many millions of dollars.
Tempo outlines the identities of several generals and alleged details of their suspicious bank accounts:
East Kalimantan Police Chief Insp. Gen. Mathius Salempang, Assets: Rp 8,553,417,116 ($945,076) and US$59,842 as of May 22, 2009
He is accused of having been paid Rp 2,088,000,000 from unknown sources. On July 29, 2005 the account was closed and Mathius transferred Rp 2 billion to an account belonging to an unknown person. Two days later, the money was withdrawn and deposited in a time deposit account belonging to Mathius. The allegation, however, was apparently news to Mathius, who told Tempo that it was the first he had heard of it. "I only heard it from you," he said.
Insp. Gen. Sylvanus Yulian Wenas, head of National Police's elite Mobile Brigade (Brimob). Assets: Rp 6,535,536,503 as of August 25, 2005
He is accused of transferring Rp 10,007,939,259 to a person claimed to be the director of PT Hinroyal Golden Wing. It consisted of Rp 3 billion and $100,000 on July 27, 2005, and another US$670,031 on Aug. 9, 2005. "The money was not mine," Sylvanus told Tempo on June 24.
Insp. Gen. Budi Gunawan, the head of Internal Affairs at the National Police. Assets: Rp 4,684,153,542 as of Aug. 19, 2008.
He was accused of undertaking large transactions that did not match his financial profile. Budi and his child had opened bank accounts and deposited Rp 29 billion and Rp 25 billion respectively. "The news is not true at all," Budi Gunawan told Tempo on June 25, 2010.
Insp. Gen. Badrodin Haiti, the head of the National Police's Legal Division. Assets: Rp 2,090,126,258 and $4,000 as of March 24, 2008.
He was accused of buying a Rp 1.1 billion insurance plan from PT Prudential Life Assurance. The money came from a third party. He withdrew Rp 700 million and received routine monthly transfers. "Only the National Police chief of detectives has the authority," Badrodin told the magazine.
Comr. Gen. Susno Duadji, former National Police chief of detectives. Assets: Rp 1,587,812,155 as of 2008
He was accused of receiving a Rp 2.62 billion transfer from a lawyer and another transfer from a businessman. The total amount of money transferred to his account was Rp 3.97 billion. "We never discuss suspicious transactions," Susno's lawyer, M Assegaf, told Tempo.
Insp. Gen. Bambang Suparno, a tutor at the National Police's School of Senior Officers. Assets: unknown.
He was accused of buying a Rp 250 million insurance plan in May, 2006. There was a total of Rp 11.4 billion transferred to his account from January 2006 to August 2007. He withdrew Rp 3 billion in November 2006. "There is nothing wrong with those transactions. All of them took place when I was still in Aceh," Bambang Suparno told Tempo.