Not Cooperative AGO Arrests Bonded Zone Corruption Suspect

JAKARTA - The Investigation Team of the Directorate of Investigation of the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) of the Attorney General's Office has arrested one suspect with the initials LGH in a case of alleged corruption in the misuse of bonded area facilities at the Tanjung Priok and Tanjung Emas Ports.

The head of the Attorney General's Office for Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) Ketut Sumedana, Friday, said that the suspect LGH was arrested in Bandung after not being cooperative and not heeding the summons as a witness. conveyed properly," said Ketut in a written statement received in Jakarta, Friday, April 8. When the pick-up was carried out, the suspect was not present, so investigators conducted a search and arrested the suspect in Bandung, West Java, on Thursday 7 April evening at 19.30 WIB. , based on the Warrant of Arrest of the Director of Investigation Jampidsus.

Previously, investigators named three suspects who came from the Customs and Excise agency. The three suspects were MRP as the Head of the Investigation and Investigation Section of the Semarang Customs and Excise Supervision and Service Office (KPPBC) and also as the Customs and Excise PPNS Investigator, IP as the Head of the Supervision Office. and Customs and Excise Service (KPPBC) Semarang, and H as Head of Intelligence Section of the Central Java Customs and Excise Office.

With the arrest of the LGH suspect, the total number of suspects in the alleged corruption case of misuse of bonded area facilities at Tanjung Priok and Tanjung Emas ports is four people.

The role of the suspect LGH in this case is to have access to textile companies and factories in China and to receive orders for textile raw materials from several domestic buyers.

To import textile raw materials, the suspect LGH uses the PT HGI Bonded Zone facility with the PS Director, and gets exemption from import duties and other taxes on textile imports.

Then, the suspect LGH imported 180 containers of textile raw materials from Tanjung Emas and Tanjung Priok ports from China. Textile raw materials that enter the PT HGI Bonded Zone are not produced and are not exported. However, the suspect LGH along with suspect IP, suspect MRP, and suspect H sold the raw materials domestically.

Suspect IP and suspect MRP received a sum of money from suspect LGH, while suspect H received Rp 2 billion from suspect LGH for the management of the completion of the prevention of two containers and ease of re-export. investigators and experts," said Ketut.

For the purposes of the investigation, suspect H was detained at the Salemba Rutan at the South Jakarta District Attorney's Office for 20 days, from 7-26 April 2022.

The LGH suspect was charged with Article 2 Paragraph (1) subsidiary Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of the Law on the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 Paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code. In addition, alleging that Article 5 Paragraph (1) letter a is subsidiary to letter b is more subsidiary to Article 13 in conjunction with Article 18 of the Law on the Eradication of Corruption Crimes in conjunction with Article 55 Paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code.