Fundasaun Mahein has raised questions about the process of purchasing guns for the PNTL from Indonesia last year.

The organization Fundasaun Mahein has recommended that Parliamentary Commission B demand the government create an investigative commission to research the PNTL's purchase of guns last year.

The Acting Director of Fundasaun Mahein Joao Almeida Fernandes raised this issue because the Council of Minister hasn't approved the process of introducing these guns but they already have the guns.

"The General Commander of the PNTL announced publically that the PM2-V1 guns are already in Timor-Leste," said FM Acting Director Fernandes recently in Balide, Dili. He said 75 of the PM2-V1 guns with the serial number 0001-00075 were purchased in Indonesia, with the PNTL to be the first in the world to use them.

"The National Parliament needs to demand the government quickly create an investigative commission to look into the guns, which were introduced without a transparent process at the beginning of 2013," said the FM Acting Director.

PNTL Deputy Commander Alfonso de Jesus refused to comment on the purchase of the guns.

President of Commission B (National Security, Defence and Foreign Affair) MP Maria Lurdes Bessa said the commission received a report from FM about the issue and they were currently concentrating on the issue.

"We do ask them to make an investigation team and that is underway, and we cannot publicize everything but the process is ongoing," said the Commission B President.

The commission also has called the PNTL General Commander to go to the plenary to explain the accusations about the guns. "We ask for an investigation because we have doubts about the process of buying those guns," said MP Bessa.

Secretary of State for Security Francisco da Costa Guterres said an investigation was underway into the issue.