Police freeze 30 Melinda Dee bank accounts

The National Police said Monday they have frozen 30 bank accounts belonging to Melinda Dee as part of their investigation against the Citibank employee that has been accussed of embezzling Rp 17 billion (US$1.9 million) of customers money.

National Police director for business crime Brig. Gen. Arief Sulistyanto said that money in the 30 Melinda's accounts were illegally transferred from her three clients accounts.

"We are now checking the accounts of the three Melinda clients," he said as quoted by kontan.co.id.

Arief said Melinda withdrew Rp 10 billion from her first client account between Jan. 6 and Dec. 23, 2010, Rp 4.8 billion from her second client between Aug. 31 and December 2010, and Rp 309 million from her third client in June 2010. 

Police also seized three Melinda cars: a Hammer, a Mercedes Benz and a Ferrari