Inp.polri.go.id – Jakarta. Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD said that the Money Laundering Crime Joint Task Force recommended the Indonesian National Police (INP) Criminal Investigation Department, better known as Bareskrim, to involve in the investigation of suspicious transactions related to gold imports worth IDR 189 trillion at the Directorate General of Customs and Excise under the Ministry of Finance. The suspicious transaction is part of 300 analysis reports (LHA) and inspection reports (LHP) for the 2009-2023 period, which found the suspicious transactions worth IDR 349 trillion.  The reports have been submitted by Center for Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis to the Ministry of Finance. "The public attention is in on the report that found the alleged money laundering of Rp. 189 trillion. I recommend the Criminal Investigation Department to involve in its investigation. Hopefully, it can be explained about where the case is going, why the problem happened, and so on," said the minister during a press conference at his office in Jakarta on Monday (11/9/2023). Chairman of the Money Laundering Crime Joint Task Force  Sugeng Purnomo explained that the case of the suspicious transactions of Rp. 189 trillion was initially investigated by the Directorate General of Customs and Excise. The Directorate General of Taxes, also under the Ministry of Finance, investigated possible tax violations in the case. "We consider other possible criminal acts such as illegal mining We agreed to ask for the Coordinating Minister's approval.  The Coordinating Minister has agreed that we would recommend the Criminal Investigation Department (to involve in the investigation)," he said as quoted by antaranews.com as saying. Sugeng, who is also the Deputy for Law and Human Rights at the Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, added that the Money Laundering Crime Task Force would invite the Criminal Investigation Department and the Directorate General of Customs and Excise at the Ministry of Finance, to discuss the case. "The Customs and Excise is expected to make a brief of the case for the Criminal Investigation Department to respond over possible follow-up to these findings in the reports. In addition, there must be information and data sharing. The Customs and Excise should share their findings to the Criminal Investigation Department’s investigators to complete the legal process," he said. The suspicious transaction worth IDR 189 trillion is one of 18 findings of the Center for Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis.  It was on top priority of the Money Laundering Crime Task Force to solve until the end of 2023. On July 10, 2023, Sugeng has raised a plan for a joint investigation to investigate the Case. The Directorate General of Customs and Excise has obtained information from 36 parties and visited four cities to investigate the case Ministry of Finance  had brought the case to court from 2016 to 2017 . However, the decision of the panel of Supreme Court justices at the judicial review level in 2019 had decided that there was no criminal element in the case.