The Founder Of The Workers' Union Reported The Former PT Pos Boss To The KPK For Suspected Hundreds Of Billion Corruption

Gedung KPK. (Irfan Meidianto/VOI)

JAKARTA - Founders of the Pos Indonesia Workers Union, Strong with Dignity (SPPIKB) reported to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on suspicion of corruption in the Pospay operational fund payment scheme worked on by a subsidiary of PT Pos Indonesia, PT Pos Finansial Indonesia (Posfin).

"We are reporting allegations of misappropriation of Pospay funds managed by Posfin. Instead of increasing revenue and expanding the capacity of state-owned companies, the Pospay program has become a plague of corruption among corporate officials," said SPPIKB Declarator Fadhol Wahab in his statement, Thursday, November 12.

In his reporting, Fadhol brought evidence in the form of an official document on the results of the PT Posfin investigation audit conducted by PT Pos Indonesia and PT Quantum with number 546 / SPI / LHAI. / 0820.

"From the results of the audit, it can be seen that there is an amount of money whose use is not clear. A total of Rp. 127 billion. After we calculated in the report, there are hundreds of billions whose use is not clear. This results in losses to PT Pos Indonesia," he explained.

Pospay is an application that serves online payments. The application also offers partnership management through an agent that is open to the public.

Later partners can open online payment counters throughout Indonesia. Partners can serve digital banking payments, in addition to distribution between goods which is the main business, starting from paying for daily necessities such as paying bank credit card bills, motorbike installments, paying for electricity, to buying credit.

Online bill payments go through Posfin. Supposedly, the money goes to Pos Indonesia to settle payments to the principle companies that are connected.

"But here is the mode, Posfin withholds Rp58 billion in cash. The post must provide bailout funds to pay off obligations to the partner company or principle," said Fadhol, who had worked for 22 years at Pos Indonesia.

He said that Posfin had played the deposit cryptically in unclear company businesses or suspected fictitious projects. There were eight projects suspected of having irregularities in the financial management of PT Posfin, leading to criminal acts of corruption, in which the total losses reached hundreds of billions.

One of them, he said, was a project for the procurement of Soil Monitoring and Land Rejuvenation Equipment at the Ministry of Agriculture worth Rp 19 billion. Posfin appointed a private company PT Sans Mitra Indonesia (Sans) and PT Oxela Surya Kencana (Oxela) to be the vendor for the procurement of goods.

But one of the vendor companies, PT Sans, gave two fraudulent cash checks to Posfin as collateral for payment through bank Mandiri cash check number H2398656 worth IDR 10 billion and cash check number H2398566 IDR57 billion.

"Posfin has already spent Rp19 billion, but there is no business scheme that makes the company profitable. In fact, the vendor gave a blank check," he said.

In addition, money was disguised through the purchase of shares to the personal needs of the President Director of Posfin Soeharto, who is now deceased.

In the audit results, it was revealed that Suharto used Rp3.1 billion to pay debts to his co-worker while still working at PT Telkom named Joni Santoso. He was also proven to have sent money to his biological son named Miki worth Rp1 billion.

Then the rest, is used to pay the premium for payment guarantee certificates (PT Caraka Mulia-PT Berdikari Insurance) worth IDR 2.8 billion, Mega Syariah Back To Back Financing (BMS) IDR 9.2 billion, purchase of shares in PT Pelangi Indodata and PT Lateria Guna Achievement of IDR 17 billion, Certification Authority (CA) project of IDR 6 billion and procurement of X-rays worth IDR 1.8 billion. The total is Rp. 127 billion.

"The mode is done by falsifying documents, without a feasibility study (FS), without the knowledge of the board of commissioners, and usually done with a back date agreement," said Fadhol.

Fadhol said that apart from Suharto, former Pos Indonesia President Director Gilarsih Wahyu Setijono was also considered responsible for the alleged irregularities.

"It is clearly indicated that the head of the holding company is responsible for the subsidiary. He and his accomplices disguised the Pospay deposit money managed by Pos Indonesia. Several names to this day are still in the same position," he said.

Posfin itself was previously known as PT Bhakti Wasantara Net (BWN). The company just changed its name to Posfin in 2017.

The minority shareholders are controlled by national businessmen and former chairman of the Golkar party, Aburizal Bakrie, and Bakrie Communications.

In a separate place, Acting KPK spokesman Ali Fikri stated that the KPK will analyze the reports submitted to its commission and verify the data it has received.

"Then it will be reviewed and studied on the information and data," said Ali.