KPK to Investigate Alleged Money Flow in Importation Case to Director General of Customs and Excise

Chairman of the KPK Setyo Budiyanto/PHOTO: Wardhany Tsa Tsia-VOI

JAKARTA - The Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Setyo Budiyanto is continuing to deepen the flow of bribes and gratuities related to imports at the Directorate General of Customs and Excise (DJBC). Including, if the money is also enjoyed by the highest leadership or the Director General of Customs and Excise.

"Yes (it will be investigated whether there is a flow of money to the Director General of Customs and Excise, ed)," Setyo told reporters at the KPK's Red and White building, Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta, Friday, February 20.

This deepening is said to be carried out in the investigation process. However, so far there has been no information about the flow of money to the Directorate General of Customs and Excise.

"While there is none, yes," he said.

In this investigation process, the KPK will also investigate forwarders other than Bluray Cargo who are suspected of participating in import bribery.

Forwarder is a professional intermediary service company that arranges the delivery of goods from the sender or shipper to the recipient or consignee efficiently.

"Maybe later it will be like there are other forwarders who are doing the same thing, it is not impossible that an inspection will also be carried out," said Setyo, who once served as the Director of Investigation of the KPK.

"But based on other information and evidence."

As previously reported, the KPK announced six suspects related to alleged bribes and gratuities related to the import of goods at the Directorate General of Customs and Excise after conducting a hand-in-hand operation (OTT) on February 4. One of them is the Director of Enforcement and Investigation of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise (P2 DJBC) for the period 2024-2026, Rizal.

In addition to Rizal, the KPK also named five other suspects. They are Sisprian Subiaksono (SIS) as Head of the Subdirectorate of Intelligence, Enforcement and Investigation of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise (Kasubdit Intel P2 DJBC); Orlando Hamonangan (ORL) as Head of the Intelligence Section of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise (Kasi Intel DJBC); John Field (JF) as owner of PT Blueray (BR); Andri as Head of the Import Documents Team of PT BR; and Dedy Kurniawan as Operational Manager of PT BR.

The KPK suspects that this case began in October 2025 when Orlando Hamonangan and Sisprian Subiaksono together with John Field, Andri, and Dedy Kurniawan committed a conspiracy. They arranged the planning of the import route of goods that would enter Indonesia.

This evil agreement is based on the Minister of Finance Regulation. In this policy there are two categories of lanes in the service and supervision of imported goods to determine the level of inspection before being issued from the customs area, namely the green lane which is the lane for the issuance of imported goods without inspection and the red lane with physical inspection of goods.

From this evil agreement, Orlando then ordered his men to adjust the parameters of the red line and follow it up by drafting a rule set at 70 percent.

This rule set was then sent by the Directorate of Enforcement and Investigation to the Directorate of Customs and Excise Information (IKC) to be included in the parameters of the goods inspection machine.

As a result of the conditioning, the goods carried by PT BR were allegedly not subject to a physical examination. So that the goods suspected of being counterfeit, KW, and illegal can enter Indonesia without being checked by Customs officers.

After the conditioning was completed, there was a transfer of money from PT BR to the parties in DJBC in the period December 2025 to February 2026 in a number of locations. The receipt is carried out regularly every month as a quota for the individuals in DJBC.

As for the hand-in-hand operation (OTT), the KPK secured evidence worth Rp. 40.5 billion in several safe houses or safe houses with details:

1. Cash in the form of Rupiah amounting to IDR 1.89 billion; 2. Cash in the form of United States Dollars amounting to USD 182,900; 3. Cash in the form of Singapore Dollars amounting to SGD 1.48 million;

4. Cash in the form of Japanese Yen amounting to JPY 550,000;

5. Precious metals weighing 2.5 Kg or equivalent to Rp7.4 billion;

6. Precious metals weighing 2.8 Kg or equivalent to Rp8.3 billion; and 7. 1 luxury watch worth Rp138 million.

Then, Rp5 billion in various denominations of currency in five suitcases at the safe house located in Ciputat, South Tangerang was also found. Investigators found the evidence during a search on Friday, February 13.