Attorney General Receives Minister Of Finance Sri Mulyani's Report On Alleged LPEI Corruption

Attorney General Sanitiar Burhanuddin and Finance Minister Sri Mulyani at the Attorney General's Office, Jakarta, Monday (18/3/2024) (ANTARA)

Attorney General Sanitiar Burhanuddin said his party received a report on alleged corruption related to the use of funds at the Indonesian Export Financing Agency (LPEI) submitted by the Minister of Finance (Menkeu) Sri Mulyani Indrawati.

"Today we have the arrival of the Minister of Finance, indeed there are several things that we discussed earlier, including allegations of corruption or fraud in the provision of LPEI credit facilities," said Burhanuddin after receiving a visit from Sri Mulyani, quoted by ANTARA, Monday, March 18.

Burhanuddin explained that this allegation had been investigated by his party for a long time through the Deputy Attorney General for State Administrative Affairs (Jamdatun) and only today has the Minister of Finance officially reported it.

Based on the explanation of the Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani that LPEI formed an integrated team with the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP), Jamdatun Attorney General's Office and Inspectorate General of the Ministry of Finance who researched problematic loans at LPEI.

From the results of the study, it was indicated that there was fraud or fraud allegedly committed by four debtors.

Burhanuddin said that for this first stage, four debtors were reported by the Ministry of Finance who were suspected of committing fraud with a total value of IDR 2.5 trillion.

"So for the first phase, Rp. 2.5 trillion with the name of the debtor (companion) RII is around Rp. 1.8 trillion, PT SMR is Rp. 216 billion, PT SRI is Rp. 1.44 billion, PT BRS is Rp. 300.5 billion. The total amount is Rp. 2.5 trillion, "said Burhanuddin.

After receiving the report from the Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani, the Attorney General followed up on the report by handing it over to the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) Febrie Andriansyah for investigation.

The Attorney General's Office supports the Ministry of Finance's efforts to clean up the Ministry of Finance.

Finance Minister Sri Mulyani added that her party received a report on the results of research on problematic credit at LPEI.

"We convey the results of the examination from the integrated team on problematic loans, which indicate a fraud, namely the alleged criminal act committed by the debtor," said Sri.

Sri also said that her party continues to emphasize to the LPEI Board of Directors who are currently to continue to improve their role and responsibility and must build good governance.