Director Of Operations II Waskita Karya Becomes A Suspect Of Corruption, Stafsus Erick Thohir: We Support The Prosecutor's Office

Director of Operations II of PT Waskita Karya Bambang Rianto. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

Special Staff to the Minister of SOEs Arya Sinulingga emphasized that his party supports the legal steps taken by the AGO.

Arya said this was also in line with the commitment of SOE Minister Erick Thohir in the process of cleaning up state-owned companies.

"As Mr. Erick has committed, clean up SOEs. So we continue to encourage the so-called BUMN cleaning, including in this case," he told reporters, Monday, December 5.

Arya also ensured that the Ministry of SOEs would continue to support the steps taken by the AGO. Including, if there are allegations of corruption in other state-owned companies.

He added that support was also related to the things that law enforcement needed to solve problems related to the prosecution of the corruption case.

"That's why we support what steps are taken by the prosecutor's office. So we continue to support whatever is needed to solve legal status problems in BUMN. We continue to support it," he said.

"That's clear, Mr. Erick's direction to clean up SOEs," continued Arya.

For your information, Director of Operations II Waskita Karya with the initials BR was named a suspect by the AGO.

BR is involved in a corruption case involving irregularities in the housing of financing facilities from several banks carried out by the company. Junior Attorney General for Special Crimes at the Attorney General's Office has named Operations Director II of PT Waskita Karya (Persero) Tbk for the 2018 period until now Bambang Rianto is a suspect in corruption in irregularities in the use of several banks' financing facilities. Director of Investigation at Jampidsus Attorney General's Office Kuntadi said investigators had raised the status of a general investigation into a special investigation into the alleged corruption case of irregularities in the use of several banks' financing facilities by PT Waskita Karya (Persero) Tbk and PT Waskita Beton Precast Tbk by naming suspects based on two sufficient evidence.

"The suspect, brother BR, currently serves as Director of Operations II of PT Waskita Karya peripde 2018 until now," Kuntadi said as quoted by Antara, Monday, December 5.

Kuntadi explained that the act against the law committed by the suspect was to approve the disbursement of Supply Chain Financing (SCF) funds with fake supporting documents.

"In order to cover up his actions, under the pretext that it seems to be used to pay off debt vendors, which we later discovered was fictitious, resulting in state financial losses," he said.