The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) head Anwar Nasution revealed Saturday that the agency had found 1,303 personal bank accounts and fixed deposits belonging to government officials containing state money last year.

"Those accounts totaled Rp 8.54 trillion (US$930 million) (and) were found in various banks," Anwar told a gathering of postgraduate students at Tanjung Pura University in Pontianak, West Kalimantan.

He said that in 2005 the agency managed to secure Rp 3 trillion out of Rp 20.44 trillion it found in 957 accounts belonging to government officials.

The BPK has asked the government to clarify the status of all the accounts currently under examination.

In its effort to combat graft in 2005, the BPK reported 10 cases of alleged corruption to the House of Representatives, the National Police and prosecutors from the Attorney General's Office (AGO). The amount involved in all the cases was estimated to total Rp 2.9 trillion.

The total indication of state losses found by BPK in 2005 was Rp 13.82 trillion.

The total indication of state losses for the first semester of 2006 ballooned out to Rp 19.24 trillion.

That total comprised Rp 16.05 trillion from the central government, Rp 1.86 trillion from local governments and Rp 1.32 trillion from state-owned companies.