Appreciation For The Performance Of The AGO In Handling The Asabri Case, KPK: We Should Learn From Them

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JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) appreciates the performance of the Attorney General's Office in their efforts to handle corruption cases at PT Asabri. KPK Deputy Chairman Nawawi Pomolango said the AGO's performance in handling this case was excellent.

"Cases have been handled very well by them. We have to learn from them the models for handling such cases," Nawawi told reporters, Tuesday, February 2.

He said that handling corruption cases that occurred within the insurance company and determining the eight suspects was not easy. Moreover, this case is a big corruption scandal.

"Salute and respect for the performance of the Attorney General's Office in handling the Asabri and Jiwasraya cases. That is a tremendous and not easy job. These cases are corruption, big scandal," he said.

In addition, he also assessed that the investigation team of the Directorate of Investigation at the Junior Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) was quite good in uncovering the PT Asabri case. So, he hopes that his institution can study with the Attorney General's Office.

"The case handling model with the case building method must be admitted as 'still lacking' by the KPK," he said.

As previously reported, the Attorney General's Office has named eight suspects in the alleged corruption case of the Indonesian Armed Forces Social Insurance (Asabri). Two of them are former President Directors of PT Asabri, namely Major General (ret) Adam Rachmat Damiri and Sonny Widjaja.

Meanwhile, for the other six suspects, namely BE as former finance director of PT Asabri; HS as Director of PT Asabri; IWS as Head of Investment Division of PT Asabri; LP Managing Director of PT Prima Network; BT and HH.

This alleged corruption case occurred during 2012 to 2019, PT. Asabri has worked with several parties to regulate and control Asabri's investment fund in share purchase investment of Rp. 10 trillion through affiliated parties and investment in mutual funds of Rp. 13 trillion.

This was done through several investment management companies (MI) in a way that deviated from the provisions of the prevailing laws and regulations.

The act is suspected to have resulted in state financial losses as stipulated in the Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Corruption Crimes.