Three Defendants Of LPEI Credit Corruption Sued 6'11 Years In Prison

Three suspects in the alleged corruption case related to the provision of credit facilities by the Indonesian Export Financing Agency (LPEI) in the 2015 period 2018 were sentenced to imprisonment for 6 years to 11 years.

The three defendants, namely the President Director of PT Petro Energy Newin Nugroho who was sentenced to 6 years in prison, Director of Petro Energy Susi Mira Dewi Sugiarta was sentenced to 8 years and 4 months in prison, and President Commissioner Petro Energy Jimmy Masrin was sentenced to 11 years in prison.

"We demand that the defendants be proven legally and convincingly guilty of committing a criminal act of corruption together and continuing," said the public prosecutor (JPU) of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Joko Hermawan at the trial of reading the indictment at the Corruption Court at the Central Jakarta District Court, Monday, November 17.

In addition to imprisonment, the three defendants were also charged with a fine. Newin and Susi are required to be subject to a fine of Rp250 million each, provided that if they are not paid, they will be replaced by a subsidiary of 4 months in prison.

Meanwhile, Jimmy was required to pay a fine of Rp. 400 million, subsidiary to 6 months in prison.

Specifically for Jimmy, the Public Prosecutor also demanded additional penalties in the form of paying compensation for state losses in the amount of 32.69 million US dollars.

For their actions, the three defendants were charged with guilt based on Article 2 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 18 of Law (UU) Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended and supplemented by Law Number 20 of 2001 jo. Article 55 paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code jo. Article 64 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code.

In this case, the three were charged with causing state financial losses of Rp958.38 billion, by enriching Jimmy as the owner of the Petro Energy financial owner of Rp600 billion and US$22 million or equivalent to Rp358.38 billion (exchange rate of Rp16,290 per US dollar).

The defendants, using a fictitious contract, are suspected of having applied for a Petro Energy financing facility to LPEI.

Then, the three were also charged with using basic assets or underlying documents of disbursement in the form of purchase orders aka purchasing orders (PO) and alias invoice bills that did not match the actual situation to disburse financing facilities from LPEI to Petro Energy.

In addition, the defendants have used the credit financing facility provided by LPEI to PT Petro Energy, which is not in accordance with the purpose of the financing facility

It was stated that the defendants committed acts of corruption together with the Managing Director I of LPEI Dwi Wahyudi and the Managing Director IV of LPEI Arif Setiawan, which were carried out separately.

Thus, the actions of the three are regulated and subject to criminal penalties in Article 2 paragraph (1) or Article 3 jo. Article 18 of the Law on the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption jo. Article 55 paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code jo. Article 64 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code.