The Attorney General's Office Examines 4 Witnesses Of Cooking Oil Companies Related To CPO Export Corruption

Director General of Perdaglu, Ministry of Trade, Indrasari Wisnu Wardhana (IWW) Indasari Wisnu Wardhana (left) has been named a suspect in the alleged case of exporting cooking oil. (Between)

JAKARTA - Investigators of the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) of the Attorney General's Office examined 4 witnesses in the alleged corruption case of granting CPO export facilities which resulted in a shortage of cooking oil.

The four witnesses examined on Thursday came from private companies managing and marketing cooking oil, namely PT Karya Indah Alam Sejahtera and PT Batara Elok Semesta Terpadu.

Three of the four witnesses are directors and managing directors as well as staff from PT Karya Indah Alam Sejahtera, each with the initials A as Export Staff, SN as managing director, and YH as director.

Then another witness, the initials of JTW as Director of PT Batara Elok Semesta Terpadu.

"The four witnesses were examined in relation to cases of alleged corruption in the provision of export facilities for crude palm oil (CPO) and its derivatives from January 2021 to March 2022," said the Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) at the Attorney General's Office, Ketut Sumedana in a written statement. Thursday, April 21.

He said the examination of witnesses was carried out to strengthen the evidence and complete the filing in the case.

The day before, Wednesday (20/4), the investigating prosecutor examined the Director of Export of Agricultural and Forestry Products at the Directorate General of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Trade, with the initials FA, as a witness related to the alleged corruption case in CPO exports.

Witness FA was examined along with two other witnesses from the private sector, namely the initials of AAA as Sales Manager of PT Incasi Raya, and BR as Supplay Chain Manager of PT Synergy Oil Nusantara.

Previously, Attorney General Sanitiar Burhanuddin at a press conference yesterday announced four suspects in the alleged corruption case in granting export facilities for Crude Palm Oil (CPO) and its derivatives which occurred between January 2021 and March 2022.

The four suspects, namely the Director General of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Trade, Indrasari Wisnu Wardhana. Then, Master Parulian Tumanggor as Commissioner of PT Wilmar Nabati Indonesia, Stanley MA as Senior Manager of Corporate Affairs of PT Pelita Agung Agrindustri/Permata Hijau Group, and Picare Tagore Sitanggang as General Manager of the General Affairs Section of PT Musim Mas.

Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) the Attorney General's Office Febrie Adriansyah ensured that his agency would examine all officials of the Ministry of Trade regarding allegations of corruption in providing CPO export facilities which resulted in a shortage of cooking oil.

In addition, Febrie also revealed, apart from the three suspects from the export companies named as suspects, there are 88 companies that export CPO which will also be investigated regarding corruption cases that caused the shortage of cooking oil.

"In this period there were 88 companies that we checked, it's true that the exports were issued, they have fulfilled the DMO in the domestic market. If he doesn't, then he can be a suspect," said Febrie, Wednesday (20/4).

The four suspects are subject to Article 2 or Article 3 of the Corruption Crime Act (Tipikor), then Article 54 paragraph (1) letter a and paragraph (2) letter abe and f of Law Number 7 of 2014 concerning Trade and/or Ministerial Decree Trade Number 129 juncto Number 170 of 2022 concerning Determination of Amounts for Distribution of Domestic Needs and Domestic Sales Prices.

Then, the provisions of Chapter 2 letter a number 1 letter b in conjunction with Chapter 2 letter c number 4 letter c Regulation of the Directorate General of Foreign Trade Number 02 DAGLU per 1 2022 concerning Technical Instructions for Policy Implementation and Regulation of CPO Exports.