Bandung Prosecutor's Office Investigate The Flow Of Corruption Funds Rp86 Billion Related To MUJ

BANDUNG - The Bandung City District Attorney's Office (Kejari) is tracing the flow of funds for corruption cases related to West Java BUMD, PT Migas Utama Jabar (MUJ) which has the potential to cause state losses of up to Rp86.2 billion.

Head of the Special Crimes Section of the Bandung City Prosecutor's Office, Ridha Nurul Ihsan, said that tracing the flow of funds was one of the most considered in order to obtain certainty of state losses and parties with the potential as other perpetrators.

"One of the things that we pay most attention to is the flow of funds and our strategy is to follow the money. Yes, anyone who receives funds from the proceeds of the criminal act of corruption," said Ridha as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, July 2.

This means, said Ridha, that by tracing the flow of funds that may lead to groups or be used personally, his party did not rule out the possibility of new suspects in this case.

In this search effort, the Bandung City Kejari cooperated with financial institutions, such as banks and continued to collect evidence.

"Yes, it is clear, of course, if this financial witness is used by financial institutions, including one of the banks. There are also those who use it in cash, so we will investigate later," he said.

Currently, Ridha said that 20 witnesses had been questioned by the Bandung Kejari investigators, consisting of people related to this case, especially PT Energi Negeri Mandiri (ENM), which is a subsidiary of PT MUJ, and includes parties from PT Pertamina Hulu Energi (PHE).

Previously, the Bandung City Prosecutor's Office named three suspects consisting of BT, NW and RAP and detained all of them for 20 days, in connection with the alleged corruption crime of Rp. 86 billion related to one West Java BUMD, PT Migas Utama Jabar (MUJ), Friday.

The head of the Bandung City Prosecutor's Office, Irfan Wibowo, was met at the Bandung District Attorney's Office, saying that the three suspects, consisting of BT (Begin Troys), NW (Nugroho Widyantoro) and RAP (Ruli Adi Prasetia), were involved in alleged corruption in the provision of goods/services between PT Energi Negeri Mandiri (ENM), which is a subsidiary of MUJ, with PT Serba Dinamik Indonesia (SDI) from 2022 to 2023.

This case began with MUJ getting 10 percent of the participating interest (PI) funds received from one of Pertamina's subsidiaries.

Overall, the budget obtained is around Rp. 800 billion since 2017 which was given as a form of Pertamina's responsibility for areas affected by the oil exploration refinery project in the Pantura area of Java.

Then, PT MUJ used the budget to fund its subsidiaries, one of which was PT ENM. Obtaining fresh capital from the parent company, PT ENM then collaborated to sub-contract the project for the procurement of goods and services in 2022-2023 for the needs of refineries with the private sector, namely PT Serba Dinamik Indonesia (SDI).

PT SDI itself can get the project from one of Pertamina's subsidiaries. But apparently, in fact, the project that was sub-contracted to PT ENM was considered illegal because it was without the approval and knowledge of the project's employer.

This caused losses by PT ENM as a subsidiary of BUMD West Java Province, namely PT MUJ, amounting to Rp86.2 billion.

The Bandung City Prosecutor's Office has also searched the house of former President Director of PT Migas Utama Jabar (MUJ), Begin Troys (BT), Monday (14/4) night in Kota Baru Parahyangan, West Bandung, and the team of investigators confiscated the house certificate and a land. This is related to allegations of corruption by MUJ's subsidiary, PT Energi Negeri Mandiri (ENM).

In addition to confiscating house and land certificates, the Bandung City Prosecutor's Office has secured a total of 42 items of documents from BT's residence. Meanwhile, a search was also carried out at the office of a subsidiary of MUJ, PT ENM, Jalan Jakarta, Bandung City, where 56 items of documents were secured.

In addition to documents, there are also several foreign currency denominations, as well as Bank Mandiri Gold Debit ATM cards, as well as BCA Dollar Bank ATMs.