Febrie Adriansyah TPPU case, the 9th team of the Attorney General's Office examines eight witnesses

JAKARTA - The Nine Investigation Team of the Attorney General's Office examined eight witnesses in the investigation of the alleged money laundering (TPPU) case that ensnared former Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) Febrie Adriansyah, Thursday, July 30.

Head of the Legal Information Center of the Attorney General's Office, Anang Supriatna, said that investigators had previously summoned 11 witnesses who were considered to have a connection with the investigation of the case.

"Of the 11 witnesses who were summoned, eight of them fulfilled the call of the investigators, namely FYH, TK, RT, RY, TH, AEP, TB, and ES," Anang said in his statement, Friday, July 31.

Meanwhile, three other witnesses did not meet the call of the investigators. The Attorney General's Office ensured that the three witnesses would be scheduled again to be questioned.

Anang explained that the examination of witnesses was part of the investigators' efforts to strengthen evidence and delve into the alleged flow of funds and assets related to the TPPU case that ensnared Febrie Adriansyah.

According to him, the investigation is still ongoing to fully uncover the construction of the case and the parties who have links to the alleged criminal act.

Until now, the Attorney General's Office has not revealed the materials of the examination of the eight witnesses or the steps of the further investigation that will be carried out.

Previously, Febrie Adriansyah was named a suspect in the alleged TPPU by the Nine Investigation Team of the Attorney General's Office on Friday, July 24 after undergoing an examination for about 10 hours. He was then detained for the first 20 days at the KPK Detention House in East Jakarta.

The TPPU case is an expansion of the investigation after the Attorney General's Office received the transfer of cases from the National Police, including evidence in the form of 74 kilograms of gold and foreign exchange worth hundreds of billions of rupiah.

Investigators suspect that money laundering was committed while Febrie was still serving as a prosecutor and structural official at the Prosecutor's Office. This investigation is also related to a series of cases of alleged corruption at PT KNI, coal governance for PLTU, and PT Asabri.