The Attorney General's Office Examines The Director Of Imports Of The Ministry Of Trade

DOK/ Hold Banurea, Young Analyst at the Director General of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Trade was named a suspect in the alleged corruption case of steel imports, Thursday (19/5/2022). ANTARA/Laily Rahmawati

JAKARTA - Investigators of the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) of the Attorney General's Office examined the Director of Imports of the Directorate General of Trade of the Ministry of Trade with the initials MS as a witness in the investigation of the alleged corruption case of steel imports.

"MS as Director of Imports at the Ministry of Trade of the Republic of Indonesia was examined regarding the mechanism or stages of import approval before being asked for the Director General's import approval signature", said the Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) of the Attorney General's Office, Ketut Sumedana, in a written statement quoted by Antara, Thursday, June 9.

In addition to MS, investigators examined three other witnesses, namely AR as a civil servant at the Ministry of Trade, who were examined when the witness served as Head of Miscellaneous Industrial Goods regarding the mechanism for the issuance of an Import Approval (PI).

Then witness DW as a Trade Analyst of Certain Functional Young Experts at the Directorate of Imports of the Ministry of Trade, was examined regarding the preparation of an explanation letter in 2017, where the letter made by the witness was at the request of the suspect Budi Hartono Linardi (BHL).

"Witness AC as an Expert Programmer at the Data and Information Center of the Ministry of Trade of the Republic of Indonesia, was examined regarding the mechanism for making an Import Approval or an explanation letter using the Inatrade application at the Indonesian Ministry of Trade", said Ketut.

In this case, investigators at the Roundabout have named 9 suspects, namely 3 individual suspects and 6 corporate suspects.

Of the three individual suspects, two of them are private suspects and one is from the Ministry of Trade. The three suspects are Retain Banurea Young Analyst of Import Trade at the Directorate General of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Trade, Taufiq, the manager of PT Meraseti, and the founder of PT Meraseti with the initials BHL or Budi Hartono Linardi.

Meanwhile, the other six suspects are importing companies, namely PT Bangun Era Sejahtera, PT Duta Sari Sejahtera, PT Inti Sumber Bajasakti, PT Jaya Arya Kemuning, PT Perwira Aditama Sejati, and PT Prasasti Metal Utama.