Former PT PIS Director General Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison in Connection with Alleged Corruption in Oil Governance

JAKARTA - The President Director of PT Pertamina International Shipping (PIS) 2022-2024, Yoki Firnandi, is charged with a prison sentence of 14 years in prison in connection with the alleged corruption case in the management of crude oil and refinery products in the period 2018-2023.

Attorney General's Office (Kejagung) Public Prosecutor, Triyana Setia Putra believes that Yoki is proven to be legally and convincingly guilty of participating in the crime of corruption together in the case.

"As stipulated in Article 603 in conjunction with Article 20 letter C of the National Criminal Code jo. Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Corruption Crimes," said the JPU in the reading of the indictment at the Corruption Court of the Central Jakarta District Court, quoted by Antara, Saturday, February 14.

In addition to imprisonment, the JPU also demanded that Yoki be sentenced to a fine of Rp. 1 billion with the provision that if the fine is not paid, it will be replaced (subsider) with imprisonment for 190 days.

Yoki was also asked to be punished with an additional penalty in the form of payment of compensation of Rp. 5 billion, with the provision that if the defendant cannot pay the compensation, at most 1 month after the decision has the force of law, the defendant's property can be confiscated by the prosecutor and auctioned to pay the compensation.

In the event that Yoki no longer has sufficient property to pay compensation, the prosecutor continued, then it will be replaced with a prison sentence of 7 years.

"If the convict pays a substitute money whose amount is less than the total obligation to pay substitute money, then the substitute money will be calculated by the length of the additional sentence in the form of imprisonment as an obligation to pay substitute money," said the JPU.

In the same trial, the Vice President of Feedstock Management of PT Kilang Pertamina Internasional (KPI) for 2023-2024, Agus Purwono, and the Director of Feedstock and Product Optimization of PT KPI for the period 2022-2025, Sani Dinar Saifudin, were present to read the same demand letter.

Both of them are required to be sentenced to the same sentence as Yoki, namely 14 years in prison, a fine of Rp1 billion, 190 days in prison, and a substitute of Rp5 billion, 7 years in prison.

In this case, the three defendants are suspected of having unlawfully enriched themselves, others, or a corporation, to the detriment of the state, amounting to IDR 285.18 trillion.

State losses include state financial losses of 2.73 billion US dollars and Rp25.44 trillion, state economic losses of Rp171.99 trillion, and illegal profits of 2.62 billion US dollars.

In detail, the state's financial losses consist of US$5.74 billion in the procurement of imported refinery products or fuel and Rp2.54 trillion in the sale of non-subsidized solar during the 2021-2023 period.

Meanwhile, the loss of the state's economy is the cost of the procurement price of fuel which has an impact on the economic burden imposed by the price, while the illegal profit is obtained from the difference between the import procurement price of fuel exceeding the quota and the procurement price of crude oil and fuel from purchases sourced domestically.