Legitimate, Conglomerate Chairul Tanjung Becomes Owner Of Bank Harda Internasional, But The Official Is February 2021

Chairul Tanjung with his daughter Putri Indahsari Tanjung. (Photo: Instagram @putri_tanjung)

JAKARTA - The Chairul Tanjung conglomerate has officially become the majority shareholder of PT Bank Harda Internasional Tbk. The man who is familiarly called CT succeeded in annexing the issuer coded as BBHI shares based on the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders (EGMS) which was held today.

Operational Director of Bank Harda Yohanes Simon confirmed this. He said that the takeover of the company to PT Mega Corpora had been carried out.

"The EGMS is finished today," he said, when contacted by VOI, Friday, January 28.

However, Yohanes said, Putri Tanjung's father's company will be confirmed as the controller of Bank Harda after the results of the EGMS are submitted to the financial services authority (OJK).

"Officially, the official is waiting for more approval from OJK on February 24 based on the schedule. Around the end of February. All the bases are approved from OJK," he said.

For your information, previously most of the shares of Bank Harda Internasional were controlled by PT Hakim Putra Perkasa (HPP). However, some time ago, PT HPP agreed to release 3.08 billion shares or 73.71 percent of all issued and fully paid shares in the company to PT Mega Corpora, a company owned by Chairul Tanjung.

It should be noted, PT Hakim Putra Perkasa, fronted by Jefry Hakim, once shocked the banking industry for selling illegal non-bank products in the form of forward trade confirm (FTC).

The product was successfully sniffed out by the Financial Services Authority (OJK) in July 2020, or five years after the FTC was marketed to the public. At that time, the FTC was marketed through Bank Harda employees without the knowledge of the management and was directly instructed by PT HPP.

FTC is a sale and purchase agreement for Bank Harda's shares through PT Hakim Putra Perkasa (HPP) as the bank's largest shareholder. The sale of FTC by unscrupulous Bank Harda is illegal because it is not a bank product.

Based on the Bisnis Indonesia report quoted by VOI, Thursday, January 28, PT HPP does not only sell FTC products through Bank Harda. However, it also offers a number of investments that are marketed through these unscrupulous banks.

In addition, PT HPP also offers investments in several of its other subsidiaries, considering that the company does not only have one financial services company. It is recorded that there are two People's Credit Banks owned by PT Hakim Putra Perkasa.

PT HPP is also known to have subsidiaries engaged in sectors other than banking, such as the automotive industry (PT Asean Motor Internasional), mining (PT Alter Abadi, investment financing (PT Varia Intra Finance, and PT Varia Intraperkasa), and securities trading intermediaries (PT. Varia Inti Sekuritas).