Minya Kita's Case Is Not In Accordance With The Takaran, The National Police Has Determined That The Branch Head Is A Suspect

Director of Special Economic Crimes at Bareskrim Polri, Brigadier General Helfi Assegaf. (Rizky A-VOI)

JAKARTA - The National Police has named one suspect in the case of violating MiyaKita's cooking oil distribution with an incommensurate mode. The suspect is said to be the owner or head of the warehouse.

"In this case, investigators have named one suspect, namely the initials AWI who acts as the owner or concurrently as the head of the branch as well as the manager of the location," said Director of Special Economic Crimes at Bareskrim Polri, Brigadier General Helfi Assegaf to reporters, Tuesday, March 11.

The suspect served as head of the branch because PT. MSI and PT. ARN assigned to pack and sell cooking oil.

The use of the Minya Kita brand is in accordance with the approval of the Directorate General of Domestic Trade of the Ministry of Trade for the two companies.

The appointment of AWI as a suspect is of course with a strong buti tool. One of them is various production machines found at PT Ayarasa Nabati which is located at Jalan Tole Iskandar Number 75 RT01 RW19 Sukamaju Village, Cilodong District, Depok City, West Java.

"The team got the facts that the place does store and produce Minya Kita packaging in the form of bottled bottles and pots with contents that are different in size from the one on the label on the packaging," he said.

The suspect packed the cooking oil with a machine that was deliberately arranged below the standard figure of one liter or 1,000 milliliters. In fact, after being checked manually, the dose of MinyaKita produced by the suspect did not match.

"In the machine, the volume that will be put into the bottle has been set there, the 802 milliliters, the other 760 milliliters. So he manually sets how many will be put in, comes out according to what is on the machine," said Helfi.

In this case, suspect AWI is suspected of violating Article 62 in conjunction with Article 8 and Article 9 and Article 10 of Law Number 8 of 1999 concerning Consumer Protection and Article 102 in conjunction with Article 97 and or Article 142 in conjunction with Article 91 paragraph (1) Law number 18 of 2012 concerning Food, and or Article 120 of Law Number 3 of 2014 concerning Industry.

Then, Article 66 in conjunction with Article 25 paragraph (3) of Law Number 20 of 2014 concerning Standardization and Assessment of Adjustments, and/or Article 106 in conjunction with Article 24 and/or Article 108 in conjunction with Article 30 paragraph (2) Law Number 7 of 2014 concerning Trade, and/or Article 263 of the Criminal Code.