REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Center for Financial Transaction Reporting and Analysis (PPATK) said that Bahrun Naim (BN) utilizes financial technology (Fintech), especially Paypal and Bitcoin, to transfer the terrorism fund. In response to these findings, the National Police stated that they would synchronize it with the terrorist network’s data that has been captured and affiliated to BN.
"It's a fact (BN transaction). This fact can be traced and explored, so it is unified the whole BN network in Indonesia," said the spokesman of the National Police, Commissioner Martinus Sitompul at the police headquarters, South Jakarta, on Tuesday.
The next step, said him, the information would be rechecked with other resources owned by the Police, for example, with the planning, preparation, records or notes, and further deepening of the flow of funds. "This will be followed up by crosschecking what has been reviewed before, what has been revealed, what is affiliated to BN. All will be explored in order to understand the flow of funds," he added.
The financial services based on technology were not a new thing for the police environment. An intelligent person, BN would not utilize the same model in every transaction. The other models he used were, for example, physical (direct) delivery, utilizes bank services, remittance, utilizes the virtual services, such as Paypal or Bitcoin, and others.
"For delivery (through) the cyberspace, it has been done for a long time and it has been explored. But the fact stated by PPATK is a new information and it is needed to be understood better," he said.
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According to the former Head of West Java Police spokesman, the national police had also discovered some parties working on the Bitcoin redemption. The police would hold cooperation with Indonesian Bank (BI) to determine whether the transaction is justified and whether it is legal.
"We are working with BI (to know whether) money collection through cyberspace is regulated, whether it is a common regulation in the remittances world. We are continuously conducted a deepening," he said.
The information would also be a provision for the police to take action against the perpetrators of terror when they utilize fintech transaction. Unfortunately, the police could not take a direct action on this, so they can only monitor and follow the fund flow.
When someone got funds to purchase of explosives materials, it can be captured. But, if there was no evidence, the national police cannot take an action. "And then, if anyone subsequently received the information that somebody had been a part of recorded group, he could not be arrested him because there are no facts of the action against the law," he explained.
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