KPK Finds Out Other Parties Playing A Role When ASDP Acquires PT Jembatan Nusantara

KPK Spokesperson Tessa Mahardika/DOK PHOTO: Wardhany Tsa Tsia-VOI

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is looking for the business cooperation process (KSU) and the acquisition of PT Jembatan Nusantara by PT ASDP Indonesia Ferry (Persero) from two witnesses today. Both were also questioned about the role of other parties.

"The two witnesses were present and examined by the KSU process and the acquisition carried out by PT ASDP and were also investigated regarding their knowledge of the roles of other parties," said KPK Spokesperson Tessa Mahardika to reporters, Monday, October 28.

Tessa said the two witnesses had the initials HS and ED. Meanwhile, based on the information they obtained, Hendra Setiawan as Vice President of Information Technology of PT ASDP and Evi Dwijayanti who is Vice President of PT ASDP.

"The examination was carried out at the KPK's Red and White Building," he said.

Previously reported, the KPK is currently investigating cases of corruption in business cooperation (KSU) and the acquisition of PT Jembatan Nusantara by PT ASDP Indonesia Ferry (Persero). It is suspected that there has been a state loss which allegedly reached Rp1.27 trillion and is still changing because the calculation continues.

A VOI source said this loss arose because the acquisition process for PT Jembatan Nusantara did not comply with the regulations. Reporting from a number of reports, PT ASDP purchased PT Jembatan Nusantara in February 2022 with a value of IDR 1.3 trillion.

This state-owned company then controlled 100 percent of PT Jembatan Nusantara shares with 53 ships under management. "The process (in carrying out business cooperation and acquisition, ed) has no legal basis," he said.

"So all acquisition rules are violated," is still quoted from the same source.

In this case, the anti-corruption commission has confiscated 15 land and building assets from the owner of PT Jembatan Nusantara, Adjie. The value reaches hundreds of billions of rupiah and is in the Pondok Indah, Menteng, Bogor City, and Surabaya City areas.