AGO Names Former Head Of Regional Office For DJBC Riau Suspect For Sugar Corruption

Former Head Of The Regional Office Of The Directorate General Of Customs And Excise Riau Ronny Rosfyandi (RR)/ANTARA

JAKARTA - Investigators from the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) at the Attorney General's Office have named the former Head of the Riau Regional Office of the Directorate General of Customs (DJBC) with the initials RR as a suspect in the sugar import case for the period 2020 to 2023.

"Today (15/5) the AGO's Investigative Team has examined the handling of corruption cases in sugar importation activities by PT SMIP for the period 2020-2023," said Director of Investigation Jampidsus at the Kuntadi AGO in a press conference reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, May 15.

In this case, he said, the investigative team on Wednesday (15/5) had examined two witnesses, bringing the total number of witnesses who had been examined as many as 69 people.

He said that after an in-depth examination of one of the witnesses being examined, investigators had sufficient evidence.

"So that RR was named a suspect in his capacity as Head of the Riau Customs Regional Office for the period 2019-2021," he said.

After a medical examination, he said, RR was then detained at the Salemba Rutan, South Jakarta District Attorney's Branch for the next 20 days.

He said that in this case RR was suspected of having committed an unlawful act by revoking the freezing decision on the permit of the PT SMIP Bonded Area with the aim that the company could bring in sugar.

"Furthermore, the person concerned also neglected activities in the Bonded Area, so that PT SMIP could freely remove sugar from the Bonded Area which should be under the supervision of the person concerned. Whereas previously the area had been frozen," he explained.

For this action, he said, RR was suspected of having received a sum of money and as a result 26 thousand tons of sugar could be removed from the warehouse from the Bonded Area by not being what it should be.

"We suspect the act in question violates the provisions of Article 2 Paragraph 1 and Article 3 Jo. Article 18 of the Law on the Eradication of Corruption Crimes Jo. Article 55 Paragraph 1 1 of the Criminal Code," said Kuntadi.

In this sugar importing corruption case, the AGO investigators on Saturday (30/3) named one suspect, namely RD as Director of PT SMIP.

Referring to a number of reports, the Head of the Regional Office (Kakanwil) DJBC Riau for the 2019-2021 period was held by Ronny Rosfyandi, who then served as Head of the South Kalimantan DJBC Regional Office until retirement on February 1, 2024.