Continues To Increase, Now Asabri's Assets Confiscated By Corruption Becomes IDR 16 Trillion

JAKARTA - Investigators of the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes at the Attorney General's Office continue to hunt down the assets of the confiscated suspect and accused of corruption amounting to Rp. 16.2 trillion.

Director of Investigation (Dirdik) Jampidsus Supardi said his party managed to collect the suspect's assets by reaching Rp1 trillion over the past few years. Thus, there was an increase in the value of assets collected by investigators from the previous Rp15.2 trillion to Rp16.2 trillion.

"Yes, it's done (Rp 16.2 trillion). Yesterday, most of the calculations have been completed. The accumulation for Asabri, if you get Rp 1 trillion, yesterday it was Rp 15.2 trillion, adding Rp 1 trillion, so Rp 16.2 trillion from during the confiscation, "said Supardi when confirmed in Jakarta, reported by Antara, Wednesday, November 24.

Recently, Jampidsus investigators confiscated assets belonging to the suspect Teddy Tjockrosaputro in the form of the Lafayette Boutique hotel in Yogjakarta and the Ambon City Center shopping center.

Supardi said that his party was still looking for the assets of the suspect and accused of corruption Asabri to restore state financial losses calculated by the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) of Rp22.78 trillion.

He also admitted that the confiscated assets were still not sufficient for the nominal state financial losses caused in the corruption scandal.

"We are targeting to get as much as possible to look for assets in the context of recovering state losses," said Supardi.

This includes assets located abroad are also targeted. However, said Supardi, confiscation of assets abroad requires a Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) agreement mechanism.

"It is not easy to confiscate foreign assets, unless there is a state that voluntarily helps. However, so far it has not," said Supardi.

The three suspects referred to are Edwar Seky Soerjadjaya, former Director of Ortos Holeing Ltd., then Bety Halim, former President Commissioner of PT Sinergi Millennium Sekuritas, and Rennier Abdul Rachman Latief, and Commissioner of PT Sekawan Intipratama.

The three suspects have the status of convicts and defendants in a number of other corruption cases.

Supardi said that investigators had made an inventory of the assets of the three suspects suspected of originating from Asabri's corruption.

"God willing, there will be. That's the case because it has been detained in another case, it's not too hasty with a separate case, the detention process. The point is that it will at one point, yes, there," said Supardi.

In the Asabri case, eight defendants are currently undergoing trial at the Jakarta Corruption Court, while the four new suspects are individuals.

In addition to individual suspects, the Attorney General's Office investigators also named 10 investment managers as corporate suspects in the Asabri case.

The ten suspected investment managers, namely PT IIM, PT MCM, PT PAAM, PT RAM, and PT VAM, then PT ARK, PT. OMI, PT MAM, PT AAM, and PT CC.