The Attorney General's Office Investigate The Flow Of Alleged Corruption Funds Johnny G Plate To Political Parties

Minister Of Communication And Information Johnny G Plate/DOK VIA BETWEEN/HO Kemenkominfo

JAKARTA - The Attorney General's Office (AGO) will investigate the flow of funds from the Minister of Communication and Information (Menkominfo) Johnny G Plate to a political party related to the alleged corruption case of the 4G BTS project and supporting infrastructure packages 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Bakti of the Ministry of Communication and Information in 2020-2022. In this case, Johnny G Plate was named a suspect.

"Regarding the flow of funds and so on, of course, we are still investigating it," said Deputy Attorney General's Investigation Director for Special Crimes at the Attorney General's Office, Kuntadi, to reporters, Wednesday, May 17.

The investigation was carried out by continuing to collect evidence. Currently, the investigative team is also searching the official residence and Johnny G Plate's office.

If later evidence is found related to the flow of funds, Kuntadi said he would immediately convey it to the public. Thus, the handling of this case is transparent.

"We are still collecting other evidence. If we meet later, we will definitely convey it," said Kuntadi.

Johnny G Plate was named a suspect. He was immediately detained at the Salemba detention center at the Attorney General's Office for the next 20 days.

In this case, Johnny G Plate was charged with Article 2 and Article 3 of the Corruption Eradication Law, in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph 1 to 1 of the Criminal Code.

Meanwhile, in the case of alleged corruption in the 4G BTS project and supporting infrastructure for packages 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the Ministry of Communication and Informatics in 2020-2022, the total loss to the country reached Rp8.32 trillion.

In this case, the AGO had originally named five people as suspects, namely AAL as the President Director of Bakti Kominfo, GMS as the President Director of PT Mora Telematika Indonesia, YS as the Human Development Expert at the University of Indonesia in 2020, MA as Account Director of Integrated Account Department of PT Huawei Tech Investment, IH as Commissioner of PT Solitech Media Sinergy.