Awaiting Corruption Suspect PT Asabri Who Loses The State Rp. 17 Billion

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JAKARTA - The handling of the PT Asabri corruption case has begun to find a bright spot because the state's losses and potential suspects have begun to be mapped.

Attorney General of the Republic of Indonesia, ST Burhanuddin, said that this case allegedly had similarities with the case of PT Asuransi Jiwasraya (Persero). The similarities lie in the side of the alleged corruption perpetrator.

"So the suspicion of the potential suspect is almost the same between Jiwasraya and Asabri," Burhanuddin told reporters, Tuesday, December 22.

However, Burhanuddin was reluctant to reveal further about the identity of the suspect candidate in the Asabri corruption case. The reason is, all of them will be exposed one by one in the investigation process.

In addition, he said, the two potential suspects in the Asabri case were strongly indicated to have similarities with the Jiwasraya corruption case.

"I didn't mention the first name. Meanwhile, there were two of the same there. But it will be different, it will definitely develop. We will study first," he said.

In addition, the state's losses in this case were well known. Based on data from the investigation by the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP), the total state losses to alleged corruption by PT Asabri reached 17 trillion.

"We have obtained about the results of the investigation from the BPKP which are estimated to be around Rp. 17 trillion in losses," he said.

Compared to the state losses in the PT Asuransi Jiwasraya case, the corruption case of PT Asabri is still bigger. This is because the case that identified several suspects, one of which was Benny Tjokro, caused state losses of Rp. 16.8 trillion.

"So maybe a little more than Jiwasraya," he said.

Burhanuddin said, with the similarities between the corruption cases of PT Asabri and PT Asuransi Jiwasraya, the case handling will move from the Police to the Attorney General's Office. With the hope that handling will be faster because of these similarities.

"So why are we being asked to handle it because there are similarities and of course we can already map out the problem," he said.

Polri Delivers Asabri Case

Regarding the handling of the alleged corruption case of PT Asabri, Bareskrim Polri and the Attorney General's Office also coordinated. As a result, the handling of the PT Asabri case was delegated to the Attorney General's Office (Kejagung).

Kabareskrim Polri, Komjen Listyo Sigit Prabowo, said that one of the reasons behind the transfer of this case was because a number of assets that had been confiscated and potential suspects had similarities to the PT Asuransi Jiwasraya case.

"There were assets confiscated whose sources came from Asabri and Jiwasraya funds because the perpetrators were almost the same," said Listyo.

To make it easier to track and handle them, said Listyo, it is better to put together the alleged corruption cases. This is because the handling of the PT Asuransi Jiwasraya case is still ongoing at the AGO.

Although at the time of handling this case, the National Police had found strong evidence of a criminal act of corruption. The form of corruption referred to is related to irregularities in investment governance and other activities from 2012 to 2019.

"For tracing and repayment of state losses it is better to put it together at the Attorney General's Office," he said.

Previously, the PT Asabri corruption case was handled by the National Police based on three police reports (LP) received at the Directorate of Special Economic Crimes, Bareskrim Polri and the Special Crime Directorate of Polda Metro Jaya.

The first report is registered with number A077 / II / 2020 / Dittipidekses dated February 7, 2020. In this report, investigators have examined 43 witnesses and confiscated a number of financial reports.

Then, LP number A0175 / III / Bareskrim dated March 24, 2020 and has been under investigation since April 22, 2020. Finally, the report registered at Polda was number 63 / I / 25/2020 SPKT / PMJ on January 15, 2020.

However, in the handling of this case, it was decided that the Polda Metro Jaya investigators would handle it first. This is because the first reporting was carried out at Polda Metro Jaya.

The investigation process is still waiting for the results of the investigation by the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK). Later, from the results of the examination, the next steps will be determined.

In this case, the investigator suspects that there is a violation in Article 2 paragraph (1) and / or Article 3 of Law number 21 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Corruption Crimes as amended in Law number 8 of 2012 in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code.