CPO Export Case, AGO Examines 7 Witnesses

Head of the Attorney General's Office for Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum Kejagung) Ketut Sumedana. ANTARA/HO-The Attorney General

JAKARTA - Investigators of the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) of the Attorney General's Office examined seven witnesses in the investigation of the alleged corruption case of granting export facilities for crude palm oil (CPO) and its derivatives for the period January 2021 to March 2022.

The Head of the Center for Legal Information (Kapuspenkum) at the Attorney General's Office, Ketut Sumedana, said that the examination of witnesses was to strengthen evidence and complete the filing. Investigators are targeting the end of June for the CPO case file to be transferred to Phase I.

The witnesses examined were the Director of the Network and Financial Services Business of PT Pos Indonesia with the initials CS, then the Associate Expert Trade Analyst with the initial R and the Research and Advisory Staff in Indonesia with the initials SPI.

"In addition to them, witness SH is the Head of the Legal Bureau at the Secretary General of the Indonesian Ministry of Trade," said Ketut as quoted by Antara, Friday, June 3.

SH has also been examined for the second time as a witness. Previously, on Tuesday (31/5), SH was also questioned along with two other witnesses.

The next witnesses to be examined on Friday were Research and Advisor staff with the initials S, Trade Facilitators and Processing Staff on the Business and Export Licensing Single Submission System at the Ministry of Trade with the initial P, and the General Trade Facilitator at the Ministry of Trade with the initials SMI.

The AGO has suspected five people in a corruption case in granting export facilities for CPO and its derivative products, including cooking oil, which took place from January 2021 to March 2022.

The five suspects are Indrasari Wisnu Wardhana as the Director General of Foreign Trade (Dirjen Daglu) of the Ministry of Trade.

The other four are from the private sector, namely Master Parulian Tumanggor as Commissioner of PT Wilmar Nabati Indonesia, Senior Manager of Corporate Affairs of PT Pelita Agung Agrindustri/Permata Hijau Group Stanley MA.

Next was Picare Tagore Sitanggang as General Manager at the General Affairs Section of PT Musim Mas and founder and policy/analyst advisor to PT Independent Research & Advisodry Indonesia Lin Che Wei.

As a result of the actions of the suspects, causing losses to the state economy, namely the expensiveness and scarcity of cooking oil, resulting in a decrease in household consumption and small industries that use cooking oil and make people's lives difficult.