AGO Confiscates 60 Thousand M2 Of Asabri Case Suspect's Assets In Ambon

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JAKARTA - The Attorney General's Office Investigating Assets confiscated assets belonging to Teddy Tjockrosaputro, a suspect in the alleged corruption case of PT Asabri (Persero), in the form of land and buildings covering an area of 60,000 square meters (m2).

The Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) at the Attorney General's Office, Leonard Eben Azer Simanjuntak, said the confiscation was based on the stipulation letter Number: 74/Pen.Pid.Sus-TPK/2021/PN.Amb dated November 3, 2021.

The assets are registered in the name of PT Bliss Retailindo Utama and are suspected to be related to Teddy Tjokrosaputro.

"The confiscation of the three parcels of land and/or buildings has been determined by the Chairman of the Corruption Court at the Ambon District Court, which basically gives permission to investigators from the Attorney General's Office to confiscate land and/or buildings in Ambon City," Leonard said as quoted by Antara. , Thursday, November 4th.

The three plots of land are divided into different building rights certificates (HGB), each covering an area of 25,000 m2, 20,000 m2 and 15,000 m2.

On the three plots of land, stands a permanent building, namely the Ambon City Center mall.

"Against the assets of the suspects that have been confiscated, an assessment will then be carried out by the Public Appraisal Service Office (KJPP) to be calculated as saving state financial losses in the next process," Leonard said.

Director of PT Rimo Lestari Internasional Teddy Tjockrosaputro is the younger brother of Benny Tjockrosaputro, a defendant in the Asabri corruption case and the PT Jiwasraya corruption case.

Previously, investigators had confiscated two luxury cars belonging to Teddy, which were in the name of PT Rimo Lestari Internasional.

In addition, the AGO investigators also seized the Tanjungpinang City Center (TTC) mall in Tanjungpinang City, Riau Islands in mid-September.

Teddy was charged with Article 2 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption (Tipikor) as amended and supplemented by Law Number 20 of 2021 in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) the 1st.

In addition, Teddy is suspected of laundering money as stated in Article 3 and Article 4 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Prevention and Eradication of the Crime of Money Laundering in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code.

In this case, eight defendants have been tried at the Central Jakarta Corruption Court. Four other suspects are still being processed, including Teddy Tjockrosaputro.

Apart from individual suspects, the AGO investigators also named 10 investment managers as corporate suspects in the Asabri case.

The ten corporate suspects are PT IIM, PT MCM, PT PAAM, PT RAM, PT VAM, PT ARK, PT OMI, PT MAM, PT AAM and PT CC.

Director of Investigation of the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Dirdik Jampidsus) Attorney General's Office Supardi said his party had dispatched a team to pursue the assets of the Asabri suspects.

The hunt for the assets of the suspects is to restore state financial losses caused by mega-corruption of Rp. 22.78 trillion.

"The team is still moving, it's just a matter of formalizing it, (and) asking the court's permission," Supardi said.