Prosecutor's Office Collaborates With PPATK To Examine The Flow Of Funds In The Pertamina Land Mafia Case

JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta High Prosecutor's Office cooperates with the Financial Transactions and Analysis Reporting Center (PPATK) to trace the flow of funds to a number of parties related to the alleged corruption case related to the land mafia against assets belonging to PT Pertamina on Jalan Pemuda, East Jakarta.

Head of Law Enforcement Section (Penkum) of the DKI Jakarta Prosecutor's Office, Ashari Syam, said that the cooperation with PPATK was considering the compensation payment of Rp. suspected to be a "bancakan".

"The heirs received the hundreds of billions of money from Pertamina, because they won the civil lawsuit on land belonging to PT Pertamina which was submitted to the court. However, the related parties are suspected of having received (splashed) the flow of funds, this is being investigated by investigators," Ashari said in a statement quoted by Antara, Tuesday, April 26.

However, he could not explain in detail who the parties suspected of receiving the money were other than the heirs of the late Hadi Sopandi Hospital. Because it is still under investigation to find legal facts accompanied by evidence and evidence by examining a number of witnesses.

"Currently, it is not possible to explain or convey who the parties suspected of receiving the money are," he said.

However, Ashari said, the Jakarta Attorney General's Office (Aspidsus) investigators already had the names of those who allegedly enjoyed "bancakan" from the money paid by PT Pertamina after losing in court, and the bailiff confiscated the execution of compensation payments based on court decisions.

"We already know the names of the parties who received them, but that must be adjusted to the statements of the witnesses and the evidence they have," he said.

According to Ashari, there is a state financial loss because Pertamina has poured hundreds of billions of money.

"The state is losing because Pertamina's Rp244.6 billion has been issued or confiscated by the court bailiff and given to the heirs," he said.

Ashari emphasized that based on the results of the preliminary investigation, it was suspected that there were other parties who splashed the money from Pertamina.

"Therefore, the DKI Attorney General's Office is collaborating with PPATK to reveal the parties who received money outside the heirs, and also those who participated in collusion in the alleged corruption case of the land mafia," he said.

Previously, the special criminal investigation team from the DKI Jakarta High Prosecutor's Office (Kajati) had conducted searches in a number of places related to the alleged land mafia case against assets belonging to PT Pertamina on Jalan Pemuda, Rawamangun, East Jakarta.

During the search, the investigative team confiscated a number of documents and certain documents in the context of the investigation process.

Search and confiscation carried out by a team of prosecutors investigating the Special Prosecutor's Office of the DKI Jakarta Prosecutor's Office based on a Search Order Number: Print-1035/M.1.5/Fd.1/04/2022 dated April 7, 2022; Seizure Order Number: Print-1034/M.1.5/Fd.1/04/2022 dated 7 April 2022, and the determination of the Corruption Court at the Special Class IA Bandung District Court Number: 8/Pen.Pid.Sus/TPK/ 2022/PN.Bdg on April 14, 2022.

According to Ashari, the three places that were searched were in Cianjur Regency, West Java. He detailed that, first, the investigation team searched the residence on behalf of ALS which was located in Cijati Village, Sukasari Village, Cilaku.

Then they searched the residence of the witness with the initials S, which was located in Mekar Manik Village, Jati Village, Bojongpicung, Cianjur.

"And sister AYS's residence is located in Cibodas Village, Gunung Sari Village, Ciranjang," he said.

The three witnesses whose residences or residences were searched were the heirs of the late Hadi Sopandi Hospital.

Meanwhile, during the search, said Ashari, investigators also took legal action to confiscate Pertamina's land documents and certain documents related to the identity of the heirs.

"And confiscated land assets and SHM belonging to witness AYS as well as electronic objects," said Ashari.