Attorney General's Office Seizes 5 Luxury Cars For Corruption Suspects In Asabri, Including 2 Range Rovers

Range Rover car confiscated by the AGO in the Asabri corruption case (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Junior Attorney General Investigators for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) The Attorney General's Office seized five luxury cars belonging to a suspect in the Asabri corruption case.

"Yesterday we pulled five cars related to all IWS suspects," said Jampidsus Investigation Director at the AGO Febrie Adriansyah as quoted by Antara, Thursday, March 25.

IWS or Ilham W Siregar is the Head of the Investment Division of PT Asabri for the period July 2021-January 2017, one of the nine suspects in a suspected corruption case at PT Asabri.

The five cars were taken to the Attorney General's office and displayed a red and white stripe that read the confiscation of the Attorney General's Office. The confiscated cars included two white Range Rover cars and a black sedan.

There are still several more cars that are still being chased by investigators. The AGO said Febri will confirm the ownership of the five units of cars that have been confiscated because their ownership uses the name of the company.

"So this is still confirmed, because it uses someone else's name, not the name IWS, the name of the company," said Febrie.

Other assets belonging to IWS that have been confiscated and blocked by investigators are 12 plots / land pencils in three districts / cities. The land assets in Bogor Regency are in the form of a certificate of ownership of one area, in the form of a certificate of building rights totaling six fields.

In addition, in Depok City there are two fields of ownership certificate, and in South Jakarta it is in the form of ownership rights in three fields.

Febrie said investigators were still on the ground to pursue the assets of the suspects to recover state financial losses. There were 20 prosecutors joined in three to four teams who were deployed to Kalimantan, Central Java and West Java to trace the assets of the suspects.

The team of investigating prosecutors has confiscated a number of assets belonging to the suspects, ranging from buildings, apartments, added nickel, luxury cars, ships to other valuables, including assets in foreign countries such as Singapore.

Meanwhile, from the provisional appraisal, the total value of assets collected by investigators reached IDR4.4 trillion. This value does not include mines that have been confiscated.

"The provisional appraisal is calculated at Rp.4.4 trillion that we have just obtained in the form of land, buildings, ships, cash, checks, watches and others. We have not mined yet, we hope that mining can cover part of the state's financial losses," said Febrie.

The Asabri case is said to have caused a loss of Rp23.73 trillion in state finances. The state losses in this case were far greater than in the Jiwasraya case.

The Attorney General's Office Jampidsus named nine suspects in the investigation into the alleged corruption case of Asabri.

The nine suspects are the Director of PT Asabri for the period 2011 to March 2016, Mayjen Purn. Adam Rachmat Damiri, Managing Director of PT Asabri for the period March 2016 July 2020 Lieutenant General Purn. Sonny Widjaja, Finance Director of PT Asabri for the period of October 2008 June 2014 Bachtiar Effendi, and Director of PT Asabri for the period 2013-2014 and 20152019 Hari Setiono.

Next, Head of Investment Division of PT Asabri July 2012January 2017 Ilham W. Siregar, Managing Director of PT Prima Network Lukman Purnomosidi, and Director of PT Jakarta Emiten Investor Relations Jimmy Sutopo, Managing Director of PT Hanson International Tbk. Benny Tjokrosaputro, and Commissioner of PT Trada Alam Minera Heru Hidayat.

Both Benny and Heru are suspects in the corruption case at PT Asuransi Jiwasraya.