Fajarasia.co – Head of the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK), Ivan Yustiavandana, said that criminal organizations use various digital tools to plan, coordinate, communicate, network and trade illegal goods. The same applies to money laundering crimes.
Ivan added that they also take advantage of the development of financial technology in an effort to hide and disguise the proceeds of crime. Various variations of digital tools in the financial system have significantly transformed the method of transferring illegal flows of funds at all stages of money laundering, including placement, layering and integration.
“The breadth of opportunities to conduct digital transactions through various electronic payment facilities has resulted in a very complex ecosystem and it is increasingly difficult to identify and trace suspicious financial transactions,” Ivan said in his statement quoted on Wednesday (25/5/2022).
Ivan said Indonesia as a country must ensure that law enforcement authorities have the responsibility to carry out financial investigations and proactively conduct parallel investigations of predicate crimes with money laundering.
“For this reason, every law enforcement officer must have high professional standards, integrity and have adequate competence. This needs to be done considering the importance of competent law enforcement in money laundering investigations,” he said.
Furthermore, Ivan said that through the seminar, it is hoped that it will produce a common perception regarding the urgency of increasing the competence of Money Laundering (TPPU) investigators in the era of the digital economy.
“In addition, it is also hoped that it can encourage synergy between institutions to jointly formulate strategies and effective steps in increasing the competence of ML investigators,” he said.****
