The Attorney General's Office Examines 3 Customs Employees Related To Corruption In The Golden Commodity

Kapuspenkum Kejaksaan Agung Ketut Sumedana when giving a statement to reporters at the Press Room of the Puspenkum Attorney General's Office, Jakarta, Monday (13/3/2023). (ANTARA/Putu Indah Savitri)

JAKARTA - Investigators from the Attorney General's Office, Friday, examined three employees of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise at the Ministry of Finance as witnesses related to alleged corruption in the management of commodity business activities in 2010-2022.

Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) of the Attorney General's Office, Ketut Sumedana, said that apart from the three Customs and Excise employees, investigators also examined a witness from the private sector; so that a total of four witnesses were examined.

"The Jampidsus (Junior Attorney General for Special Crimes) investigators examined four witnesses, namely HW, MAD, FI, and EDN," Sumedana was quoted as saying by ANTARA, Friday, May 19.

He said the three Customs and Excise personnel examined were EDN, as Head of the Investigation and Investigation Results Section at the Directorate General of Customs and Excise, as well as FI and MAD, respectively as civil servants (PNS) at the Directorate General of Customs and Excise of the Ministry of Finance.

Meanwhile, a witness from the private sector is the initials HW as an employee of PT Indah Golden Signature.

Jampidsus investigators have raised the status of the investigation to the investigation of the alleged corruption case in the management of commodity business activities for the 2010-2022 period based on the Investigation Order Number: Print-14/F.2/05/2023 dated May 10, 2023.

The investigative team started the case handling activities by conducting searches in several places, namely Pulogadung, Pondok Gede, Cinere, Depok, Pondok Aren, South Tangerang, and Surabaya, namely PT UBS in Tambaksari and PT IGS in Genteng. Searches were also carried out at the Customs and Excise Office.

From the results of the search, the AGO investigators found and confiscated several documents and electronic evidence allegedly related to the case.

Regarding the commodity corruption, Wednesday (29/3), Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menkopolhukam) Mahfud MD, in a Hearing Meeting with Commission III of the DPR RI and the National Committee for Prevention and Eradication of Money Laundering (TPPU), revealed allegations of money laundering at the Directorate General of Customs and Excise with 15 entities worth Rp. 189 trillion for importing gold bullion.