Five People Have Been Named Suspects In The Jiwasraya Case

Former Jiwasraya President Director, Hendrisman Rahim. (Photo: Twitter @Jiwasraya)

JAKARTA - Junior Attorney General for Special Crimes at the Attorney General's Office, Adi Toegarisman, confirmed that his party had named five suspects in the Jiwasraya case. In this case, he said, PT Asuransi Jiwasraya had alleged corruption in the management of finances and investment funds.

The five are Commissioner of PT Hanson International Tbk Benny Tjokrosaputro, President Commissioner of PT Trada Alam Minera Tbk (TRAM) Heru Hidayat, former Finance Director of PT Asuransi Jiwasraya Harry Prasetyo, former President Director of PT Asuransi Jiwasraya Hendrisman Rahim and former Head of Investment and Finance Division of PT Jiwasraya Syahmirwan. .

After being named as suspects, the five of them were immediately taken to the detention center to be detained for the next 20 days from Tuesday 14 January.

"Earlier in the process, five suspects were detained from today for the next 20 days," said Adi Toegarisman, Wednesday, January 15.

The five of them were detained in different detention centers. Benny Tjokrosaputro was detained at the KPK detention center. Heru Hidayat was detained at the Salemba Detention Center at the Attorney General's Office.

Harry Prasetyo was detained at the Salemba Detention Center, South Jakarta District Prosecutor's Office. Hendrisman Rahim was detained at the Guntur Pomdam Jaya Detention Center. Meanwhile, Syahmirwan was detained at the Cipinang Detention Center.

Adi said that his party was still working to investigate this case regarding the role of the five people. "We are still working on collecting evidence for the perfect case file and every time we evaluate the progress of the case," he said.

DPR support

Deputy Chairman of Commission VI Martin Manurung said that his party fully supports the legal process carried out by the Attorney General's Office in uncovering Jiwasraya's default case.

"Apart from that, we need to improve the system. Moreover, we have heard that something similar happened in Asabri," he said, when contacted by VOI, in Jakarta, Tuesday, January 14.

The NasDem politician explained that in an effort to improve the system, it is necessary to form a Jiwasraya special committee (Pansus). The goal is to explore the internal problems of the company.

"To find out the weaknesses in the system and corporate governance in BUMN so that similar incidents do not occur again in the future," he explained.

The NasDem faction is indeed one of the five parties that approved and considered the need to form a Jiwasrya Special Committee. The other four are, Golkar, Gerindra, Democrat, and PKS.

Previously, Attorney General Sanitiar Burhanuddin had issued an order to investigate the Jiwasraya case Number: PRINT - 33 / F.2 / Fd.2 / 12/2019 dated 17 December 2019.

PT Asuransi Jiwasraya (Persero) has invested heavily in high-risk assets to pursue high profits, including the placement of shares of 22.4 percent worth IDR 5.7 trillion of financial assets.

Of this amount, 5 percent of funds are placed in stocks of companies with good performance, the remaining 95 percent of funds are placed in stocks with poor performers.

In addition, the placement of mutual funds was as much as 59.1 percent, valued at Rp. 14.9 trillion of financial assets. Of these, 2 percent are managed by investment managers with good performance. Meanwhile, 98 percent are managed by underperforming investment managers.

As a result, PT Asuransi Jiwasraya until August 2019 bears a potential state loss of IDR 13.7 trillion.