The Attorney General's Office Names 3 Suspects In Perum Perindo's Alleged Corruption Case

JAKARTA - Investigators from the Attorney General's Office have named three suspects in the alleged corruption case at Perum Perikanan Indonesia (Perindo) in 2016-2019.

The Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) of the Attorney General's Office, Leonard Eben Ezer Simanjuntak, said the three suspects had the initials NMB, LS and WP.

According to Leonard, the suspect was named after the investigating prosecutor examined seven witnesses. However, only four witnesses were present, and three of them were named as suspects.

"To speed up the investigation process, the three suspects are then detained," said Leonard, quoted by Antara, Thursday, October 21.

There are also three suspects, namely NMB as Director of PT Prima Pangan Madani, LS as Director of PT Kemilau Bintang Timur and WP as BUMN employee/former Vice President of Trade, Arrest and Management of Perum Perindo.

"The suspects NMB and LS were detained for 20 days at the Salemba Rutan at the South Jakarta District Attorney's Office, while the suspect WP was detained at the Salemba Detention Center at the AGO branch," Leonard said.

The alleged corruption case in the State-owned company began when the President Director of Perindo was occupied by SJ, Perum Perindo issued Medium Term Notes (MTN) and received Rp200 billion in funds in 2017.

The funds consist of Perum Perindo's 2017 Jumbo MTN Certificate – Series A and Perum Perindo's 2017 Jumbo MTN Certificate – Series B.

"As for the purpose of the MTN being used for financing in the field of capture fisheries. However, the fact is that the use of MTN Series A and Series B funds is not used according to the designation as the prospect or purpose of issuing MTN series A and series B," said Leonard.

According to Leonard, the MTN series A and series B are mostly used for the fish trading business managed by the Fish Trade and Processing Strategy Business Unit (SBU) led by WP.

In December 2017, the President Director of Perindo changed to a hospital where in the previous period the hospital was the Director of Operations of Perum Perindo.

Then the hospital held meetings and meetings with the Fish Catching, Trading and Processing Division (P3) or Strategy Business Unit (SBU) Fish Trade and Processing (FTP) which was also attended by IP as an Advisor for the P3 Division to discuss Perum Perindo's business development using serial MTN funds. A and series B, Bank BTN Syariah credit and Bank BNI credit.

Furthermore, there are several companies and individuals recommended by IP to Perindo to carry out fish trade cooperation, namely PT Global Prima Santosa (GPS), PT Kemilau Bintang Timur (KBT), S/TK and RP.

In addition to several parties brought by IP, there were also several other parties who later collaborated with Perindo for the fish trading business, including PT Etmico Makmur Abadi, PT SIG Asia, Dewa Putu Djunaedi, CV Ken Jaya Perkara, CV Tuna Kieraha Utama, Law Aguan , Pramudji Candra, PT Prima Pangan Madani, PT Lestari Sukses Makmur, PT Tri Dharma Perkasa.

"The method used in the fish trading business is the method of selling and buying broken fish," said Leonard.

He said in the appointment of the fish trading business partners mentioned above, Perindo through the P3/SBU FTP Division did not conduct business analysis, financial plans and business development projections.

Apart from that, in carrying out the fish trading business, several parties have not signed a cooperation agreement, there is no report on the handover of goods, there is no report on the sale and purchase of fish and nothing from Perindo is placed in the delivery of fish from the "supplier" to business partners of Perum Perindo.

As a result of deviations in the method of appointing fish trading business partners by Perum Perindo, Leonard continued, this has led to incorrect verification of the terms of disbursement of business funds and led to fictitious transactions carried out by Perum Perindo's fish trading business partners.

Then these fictitious transactions became arrears in payments of fish trading business partners to Perum Perindo of approximately Rp149 billion.

For their actions, the three suspects were subject to Article 2 paragraph (1) subsidiary Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of the Corruption Eradication Law in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) 1 of the Criminal Code.