JAKARTA - The President Director of PT Pertamina International Shipping (PIS) for 2022-2024, Yoki Firnandi, was sentenced to nine years in prison for being proven to have committed corruption related to the crude oil and refinery product management case for the period 2018-2023.
Presiding Judge Fajar Kusuma Aji stated that Yoki was proven to be legally and convincingly guilty of participating in the corruption crime together in the case, thus causing losses to the state treasury amounting to IDR 9.42 trillion.
"In addition to imprisonment, the defendant was also sentenced to a fine of Rp1 billion subsider 190 days in prison," said the Chief Judge in the reading of the verdict at the Corruption Court at the Central Jakarta District Court, quoted by Antara on Friday, February 27, early morning.
In the same trial, the verdict was also read against Vice President of Feedstock Management of PT Kilang Pertamina Internasional (KPI) in 2023-2024 Agus Purwono and Director of Feedstock and Product Optimization of PT KPI for the period 2022-2025 Sani Dinar Saifudin.
Agus was sentenced to 10 years in prison, while Sani was sentenced to 9 years in prison. Both were also sentenced to a fine of Rp1 billion each, with 190 days in prison.
For their actions, the three defendants were found guilty of violating Article 2 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Corruption as amended and supplemented by Law Number 20 of 2001 jo. Article 55 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code.
In this case, the acts of Yoki, Agus, and Sani were charged together with the beneficial owner of PT Navigator Khatulistiwa Muhammad Kerry Adrianto Riza, Commissioner of PT Pelayaran Mahameru Kencana Abadi (PMKA) Gading Ramadhan Juedo, and Commissioner of PT Jenggala Maritime Nusantara (JMN) Dimas Werhaspati.
In the procurement of ship rental, Kerry allegedly asked Yoki to answer the confirmation of the certainty of the ship rental income from PT PIS as the source of funding for the installment of the investment loan for the purchase of ships by Bank Mandiri.
Then, Kerry and Dimas, together with Sani and Agus, made arrangements to rent a Suezmax ship owned by PT JMN by adding the requirement "domestic transportation" in the response letter from PT KPI to PT PIS with the intention that in the procurement process the foreign ship could not participate in the tender.
The move is allegedly aimed at ensuring that only PT JMN's Suezmax ships can be chartered by PT PIS.
Meanwhile, in the rental of fuel oil tanks (TBBM), Kerry and Riza, through Gading as Director of PT Tangki Merak, submitted a proposal for cooperation in renting the Merak Fuel Terminal to Hanung Budya Yuktyanta as Director of Marketing and Sales of PT Pertamina (Persero), even though they knew the Merak Fuel Terminal was not owned by PT Tangki Merak, but owned by PT Oiltanking Merak.
Then, Kerry also gave Gading the authority to sign a Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in the Service of Receipt, Storage, and Delivery of Fuel with Hanung, even though he knew that the Merak Fuel Terminal was not owned by PT Tangki Merak.
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