Indofarma Entangled In Pinjol, Erick: If There Is Fraud, We Will Arrest It

SOE Minister Erick Thohir. (Photo: Mery Handayani/VOI)

JAKARTA - Minister of State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) Erick Thohir ensured that if later there were findings of corruption in the financial problems of PT Indofarma Tbk (INAF), the parties involved would be prosecuted.

As is known, Indofarma has difficulty paying salaries and debts, even the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) found this pharmaceutical company entangled in online loans (pinjol).

"Together with BPK, we have coordinated with the Attorney General's Office, if. If the fraud case is a fraud, we will arrest corruption," he said when met in Sarinah, Jakarta, Friday, July 5.

Even so, Erick said efforts to save Indofarma still needed to be made, including the settlement of debt payments to vendors.

According to him, there have been a number of rescue strategies prepared by the Ministry of SOEs.

"We have to manage the Indofarma ourselves well, we have to make rescues, including debt vendors and various things, yes of course we have to finish it," he said.

Erick said the handling carried out at Indofarma was based on lessons from cases that occurred in other SOEs.

He explained that the BUMN problems currently being handled by the AGO, BPK, and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) could not be separated from the efforts of the Ministry of SOEs to carry out 'cleaning up' at state-owned companies.

"Look, if an individual problem can happen anywhere, if you say SOEs don't study it, it's actually SOEs that are found, SOEs that conduct audit investigations. Then we do verification, then we report it to the BPK, and BPK checks again, and only then does it (cases revealed)," he said.