Attorney General's Office Seizes 20 Ships From Corruption Suspect PT. Asabri Heru Hidayat

JAKARTA - The Attorney General's Office (AGO) seized 20 ships in the alleged corruption case of the Indonesian Armed Forces Social Insurance (Asabri) company. Dozens of boats belonged to one of the suspects, Heru Hidayat.

"Now investigators have obtained Heru Hidayat's ship 20, all of which have been confiscated. Various types", said the Director of Investigation at the Attorney General for Special Crimes at the AGO, Febrie Ardiansyah, told reporters, Tuesday, February 9.

Even of the dozens of ships, said Febrie, one of them is the largest ship in Indonesia. The ship was used to transport Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Aquarius.

"(The locations of the confiscation) were all in Indonesia", he said.

Apart from ships, a number of plots of land with a total area of about 23 hectares were also confiscated in this case. However, there were no details regarding the location of the land parcels.

The AGO previously seized hundreds of plots of land that belonged to a suspect in the Asabri corruption case, Benny Tjokrosaputro.

"(The number confiscated), 566 plots of land in the Maja area of Lebak Regency, covering an area of 194 hectares", said Febrie.

Febrie said that the land assets were entirely related to the PT. Asabri case. This is because Benny Tjokrosaputro was also involved in the Jiwasraya corruption case.