BCL's Husband, Tiko Aryawardhana, Is Threatened With 5 Years In Prison For Alleged Fraud Against His Ex-wife

JAKARTA - The husband of singer Bunga Citra Lestari alias BCL, Tiko Aryawardhana was reported by his ex-wife on suspicion of fraud and/or embezzlement in office. Tiko Aryawardhana is suspected of causing a total loss of Rp. 6.9 billion

This was revealed by Leo Siregar as legal adviser, Arina Winarto alias AW, explaining that this incident occurred from 2015 to 2021.

At that time, AW and Tiko decided to establish a company called PT Arjuna Advaya Sanjaya (AAS") which is engaged in food and beverage.

"Initially our client and Tiko decided to establish a company engaged in food and beverage, where at that time our client became a commissioner, while Tiko was the Director, but for the company's capital, it was entirely from our Client", Leo said in a press release quoted by VOI, Tuesday, June 4.

Furthermore, AW handed over all management of business activities, especially the company's finances to Tiko Aryawardhana and chose not to interfere.

"We suspect this unsupervised authority will then become an opening for the reported party to commit acts with bad faith

"to finally result in losses for the company," explained Leo.

"Our clients all this time know that business is smooth, but why suddenly in 2019 Tiko said businesses want to close because they can't afford rent. Wow, this is strange," he said.

For the development of the police report that is currently being rolled out at the South Jakarta Police, Leo said that his party had fully handed over the investigation authority to investigators.

"(The LP) is actually from 2022 and has just been upgraded to the investigation stage in February 2024. But we are still sure that the police as investigators will always be professional and upright in handling this case, especially since it has been fingerprinted, right," explained Leo.

For this alleged fraud case, AW reported Tiko under Article 374 of the Criminal Code concerning embezzlement in office with the threat of a five-year prison sentence.

"The reason is 374 of the Criminal Code concerning embezzlement in office with a maximum penalty of 5 (five) years in prison," concluded Leo.

This was confirmed directly by the Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of the South Jakarta Metro Poles, AKBP Bintoro, who said that AW's report was already in the investigation stage.

"Yes, that's right. Currently it is still in process. And the investigation stage has gone up," said AKBP Bintoro via text message, Tuesday, June 4.