Jakarta – The National Police said it is planning to file lawsuits over Tempo magazine's latest edition, which featured a cover story on the enormous wealth of several senior police officers.

"We will file criminal lawsuit for defamation and also a civil lawsuit over immaterial losses toward 400,000 police members," National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Edward Aritonang told tempinteraktif.com on Wednesday. Edward, however, did not specify when the suits would be filed.

Edward said the magazine story had damaged the police corps reputation because it portrayed police members as rolling in money.

The magazine's latest edition ran stories covering suspicious bank accounts of high-ranking police officers as its cover story, a controversial issue that has been in the spotlight for quite some time.

The magazine reported that at least seven high-ranking police officers were hoarding billions of rupiah in their bank accounts, transferred from third parties.