Arya Sinulingga: INKA Corruption Case Report Results Erick Thohir

Special Staff to the Minister of SOEs, Arya Sinulingga. (Photo: Doc. ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Special Staff III of the Minister of State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) Arya Sinulingga said that the findings of the alleged corruption from the East Java High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati) at PT INKA (Persero) were the results of a report from Erick Thohir in 2022.

"So in 2022, Pak Erick, through his deputy, sent a letter to the Deputy Attorney General for General Crimes (Jampidun) asking INKA to be investigated," Arya said as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, July 24.

Arya said that this report was Erick's commitment to eradicate corruption cases in BUMN.

"So the one who reported it was Mr. Erick, part of cleaning up SOEs. So INKA is part of cleaning up SOEs," said Arya.

The Ministry of SOEs continues to clean up as a transformation effort.

According to Arya, Erick Thohir firmly dared to report directors who carried out fraud at state-owned companies.

Some of the cases reported by Erick include PT Asuransi Jiwasraya (Persero), PT Garuda Indonesia (Persero), PT Waskita (Persero), PT Wijaya Karya (Persero), and PT Telkom Indonesia (Persero).

"Who dared to report his subordinates, try to check, Mr. Erick. INKA it was Mr. Erick who reported it to the Prosecutor's Office in 2022," he said.

It is known that the East Java High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati Jatim) investigators found a sum of money issued by PT Industri Kereta Api (INKA) and no designation reached around Rp28 billion related to a fictitious project in the Republic of Democratic Congo.

However, the Head of the East Java Prosecutor's Office (Kajati) Mia Amiati stated that she was still waiting for the results of an audit from the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP) to determine state losses in this case.

"The East Java Prosecutor's Office has six auditors from the certified field of supervision. Actually, calculating losses is legal according to procedural law. But we prioritize the calculation results from BPKP," he told reporters after commemorating the 64th Adhyaksa Bhakti Day in Surabaya, Monday (22/7).

This alleged corruption case began in 2020 when PT INKA plans to work on engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of transportation projects and rail infrastructure in Congo facilitated by a foreign company.

At that time, a foreign company that facilitated it conveyed the need for other projects as supporting facilities so that the transportation and rail infrastructure projects could run, namely in the form of providing electrical energy in Kinshasa City.

Furthermore, PT PT INKA Multi Solusi (IMST) which is part of the affiliate of PT INKA together with a company called TSG Utama which is suspected to still have ties to other companies as facilitators, formed a joint venture company in Singapore under the name JV TSG Infrastructure with the aim of working on providing electrical energy.

PT INKA then provided a number of bailout funds to JV TSG Infrastructure without guarantees. However, the project in Congo has never been realized until now.