One of the unanswered questions about last Thursday’s terrorist attacks in Thamrin is where the assailants were able to acquire the weapons used to carry out the attacks.
Recently the Center for Financial Transaction Reporting and Analysis (PPATK) had released finding that suggested that money had been transferred from Indonesia to the Philipines for the purpose of purchasing weapons that might have been used in the attack.
Indonesian Police Public Relations Head Inspector General Anton Charliyan said the police were currently investigating PPATK’s findings closely.
“The existing data is under investigation,. There are approximately 10 more findings about the flow of funds, I have not memorized the details of each one,” Anton said today as quoted by Tribunnews.
Anton said, the findings had been forwarded to the Police’s Densus 88 counterterrorism unit. He said that the latest analysis had narrowed the number of suspicious overseas transactions from thousands to 80 to now just 10, which should allow investigators to home in on those involved in the transfers.
Previously, the head of the PPATK, M Yusuf, said his organization had discovered funds that were being sent from Indonesia to weapon suppliers in the Philippines. He did not disclose details about the transfers beyond them consisting of tens of millions of rupiah.
Police have also said that information coming from some of the 12 people arrested after the Thamrin attacks and suspected of aiding the assailants suggest that the guns used by the terrorists came from the Philippines.
