Alleged Corruption In Purchasing And Purchase Of Fuel, Bareskrim Polri Celebrating Pertamina Patra Niaga Headquarters Search For Proof Of Financial Transactions

The Investigation Team of the Corruption Crime Directorate (Dittipikor) of the National Police Criminal Investigation Unit conducted a search at the PT Pertamina Patra Niaga/ANTARA office.

Investigators from the Corruption Crime Directorate (Dittipikor) of the National Police Criminal Investigation Unit searched the head office of PT Pertamina Patra Niaga (PPN) at the Wisma Tugu Building, Jl Rasunan Said, South Jakarta, Wednesday, November 9. Director of Corruption Crimes (Dirtipikor) Bareskrim Polri Brigadier General Cahyono Wibowo said the search was carried out in connection with the investigation into the alleged corruption case of buying and selling non-cash fuel between PT PPN and PT Asmin Koalindo Tuhup (AKT) for the 2009-2012 period. "The purpose of the search is to find evidence or other evidence to make light of the crime we are investigating," said Cahyono in Jakarta, Antara, Wednesday, November 9. He explained that the search was carried out in three places at once, namely the head office of PT PPN, the PT PPN office of the information room technology (IT) at the Sopo Del Tower Building, Jl. Mega Kuningan Barat, South Jakarta, and the PT AKT Office at Menara Merdeka Jl. Budi Kemuliaan, Central Jakarta. The search began at 09.00 WIB. Until this news was revealed, the search was still being led directly by Cahyono Wibowo. Dittipikor Bareskrim Polri dispatched three teams during the search. Cahyono said the search was to look for documentary evidence related to paraka, financial transaction documents, evidence of flow of financial transactions, electronic evidence related to the correspondence of the parties, as well as electronic evidence related to non-cash fuel buying and selling transactions. "This search activity also involved a team from the Dittipidsiber Bareskrim Polri and Puslabfor Polri to handle electronic evidence from the results of search activities," he added. The case has been upgraded from investigation to investigation stage last August. In this case, investigators suspect that there was a state financial loss as a result of a criminal act of corruption in the process of selling non-cash fuel between the Pertamina subsidiary and PT AKT in 2009-2012 amounting to Rp451.6 billion. The brief chronology of the case was released by the Head of the Public Relations Division (Kadivhumas) of the National Police Inspector General Pol. Dedi Prasetyo on Monday (22/8). At that time, Dedi explained that in the 2009-2012 period PT PPN entered into a non-cash fuel sale agreement with PT AKT, which was signed by the Marketing Director of PT VAT with the Director of PT AKT. The implementation of the contract was in 2009-2010, there was a sale and purchase transaction of fuel with a volume of 1,500 kiloliters (Kl) per month; then in 2010-2011 PT VAT increased the volume of shipments to 6,000 Kl per month (Addendum I). Furthermore, in 2011-2012 PT PPN increased the volume to 7,500 Kl per order (Addendendum II). In the process of implementing the PT PPN agreement in the fuel expenditure stage, the Marketing Director of PT PPN violates the authority or authorization limit for the signing of a fuel buying and selling contract whose value is above Rp50 billion based on the Decree of the President Director of PT Patra Niaga Number: 056/PN000.201/KPTS/2008 dated 11 August 2008 concerning Delegation of Authority, Responsibility, and Authorization. Then, PT AKT did not make payments from January 14, 2011 to July 31, 2012 with a total of Rp. 19.7 billion and 4.73 million US dollars or Rp. 451.66 billion. "There is no guarantee in the form of a bank guarantee or SKBDN in the process of selling non-cash fuel, so that PT VAT suffered losses when PT AKT did not make payments to the fuel it had received from 2009 to 2012," explained Dedi. Based on data on creditor bill verification reconciliation in the PKPU process N0.07/PDT.SUS-PKPU/2016/PN.NIAGA.JKT.PST dated April 4, 2016, fuel that has not been paid by PT AKT to PT PPN amounted to Rp. 451.6 billion. Accounting for PT PPN receivables is known to be diesel-type fuel that has been sent to PT AKT in the amount of 154,274,946 liters or Rp. 278.6 billion or 102.6 million US dollars. "Based on the results of the investigation, there was an alleged receipt of money by PT VAT officials who were involved in the process of selling non-cash fuel between PT VAT and PT AKT during the period during the fuel sales process," said Dedi.