The Attorney General's Office Names Askrindo's Ex-Director Of Operations A Corruption Suspect

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JAKARTA - The Attorney General's Office Investigating Team has named the former Director of Operations of PT Askrindo Anton Fadjar Siregar (AFS) as a suspect in the alleged corruption case in the financial management of PT Askrindo Mitra Utama (AMU) for the 2016-2020 period.

The Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) of the Attorney General's Office, Leonard Eben Ezer Simanjuntak, said that in this case Anton played a role in requesting and receiving a share of the illegal commission "share" from PT AMU.

"The role of AFS is to request and receive a share of the illegal commission "share" from PT AMU," Leonard said as quoted by Antara, Monday, November 8.

Leonard explained that before naming a suspect, investigators summoned five people for questioning today, one of whom was named a suspect.

Apart from serving as the former Director of Operations of Askrindo, Anton also serves as Commissioner of PT AMU.

He explained that this case took place in the period 2016 to 2020. There was an illegal expenditure of agent commissions from PT Askrindo to PT AMU (a subsidiary of Askrindo).

The commission was paid by diverting PT Askrindo's direct production to appear as if it were indirect production through PT AMU.

"Then some of it was re-issued to PT Askrindo in cash as if it were an operational expense without being supported by evidence of accountability or fictitious evidence of accountability, causing state losses," Leonard said.

In this case, Leonard continued, the Junior Attorney General's Investigator for Special Crimes secured and confiscated evidence of commission "share" money from the safe amounting to Rp611 million, US$762,900 and US$32,000.

For the purposes of investigation and speeding up the process of the case, the investigator detains the suspect for 20 days. Anton is being held at the Salemba Rutan at the South Jakarta District Attorney's Office.

Regarding the state losses caused in this case, Loenard said that an audit is still being carried out by the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP).

"Currently investigators are still calculating state losses at BPKP," said Leonard.

With the stipulation of Anton as a suspect, the number of corruption suspects in PT AMU has increased to three people.

On 27 October 2021, investigators named two suspects, namely Wahyu Wisambodo, a former employee of PT AMU and former Marketing Director of PT AMU, Firman Berahima, a former employee of PT Askrindo and former Director of Compliance and HR of PT Askrindo.