The Attorney General's Office Transfers Gold Corruption Suspect Antam Budi Said To The East Jakarta Prosecutor's Office
The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has handed over the suspect in the alleged corruption case of the sale of gold precious metals at PT ANTAM Tbk, Budi Said, to the Public Prosecutor (JPU) of the East Jakarta District Attorney.
"On Wednesday at around 11.30 WIB, the East Jakarta Prosecutor's Office has received the handover of the suspect's responsibilities and evidence (phase II)," said Head of Intelligence at the East Jakarta Kejari, Yogi Sudharsono, as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, May 15.
After being delegated, Budi Said immediately underwent detention for 20 days starting today until June 3, 2024 at the Salemba Rutan, South Jakarta District Attorney's Branch.
In addition, the Public Prosecutor immediately registered the Budi Said case with the East Jakarta District Court for trial.
"As a result of the actions of the state suspect being harmed, in this case PT ANTAM is the party that is billed and has the obligation to hand over 1,136 kilograms of gold to the suspect Budi Said," said Yogi.
Budi Said was charged with Article 2 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 as amended and supplemented by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning Amendments to Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code.
Previously, investigators at the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes at the Attorney General's Office (Jampidsus Kejagung) named the criminal rich Surabaya Budi Said (BS) as a suspect in the illegal transaction case of conspiracy to buy and sell ANTAM gold.
The businessman who lives in Surabaya was named a suspect after undergoing an examination at the Jakarta Round Building (Jampidsus), Thursday (18/1), then was immediately detained at the Salemba Rutan at the Attorney General's Office in order to speed up the investigation.
"Based on the results of the intensive examination, today we raise the status of the person concerned as a suspect," said the Director of Investigation (Dirdik) of the Jampidsus Attorney General's Office, Kuntadi.
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Kuntadi explained that this case began around March to November 2018, the suspect Budi Said together with a number of individuals with the initials EA, AP, EKA, and MD had made malicious conspiracy, engineering gold buying and selling transactions.
"Some of the names were employees of PT ANTAM," said Kuntadi.
As for the engineering of the sale and purchase of gold carried out by the suspect and several elements, Kuntadi continued, by setting the selling price below the price set by PT ANTAM, on the pretext that there was a discount from PT ANTAM.
"Even though at that time PT ANTAM did not do that (discount)," said Kuntadi