Assets Of 2 Corruption Convicts In The AMG Iron Sand Mine Confiscated By The East Lombok Kejari

Po Suwandi, Director of PT AMG and defendant of corruption in the iron sand mine in the Dedalpak Block, East Lombok (center). (Between)

NTB - The East Lombok District Attorney (Kejari) confiscated valuable assets belonging to Po Suwandi and Rinus Adam Wakum, two convicts of corruption in the iron sand mine PT Anugrah Mitra Graha (AMG).

Head of the East Lombok Kejari Hendro Wasisto explained that the confiscation of assets belonging to corruption convicts was part of the execution of the court judge's decision.

"Because since one month the verdict has permanent legal force, the convict is unable to pay compensation for state financial losses, so we carry out the execution of the verdict in the form of tracing and confiscation of valuable assets belonging to the convict," said Hendro in East Lombok, Wednesday, December 4, confiscated by Antara.

The confiscation of assets which is part of the execution of the court judge's decision refers to Article 18 of the Corruption Eradication Law.

Valuable assets belonging to the convict of corruption in the iron sand mine that the prosecutor managed to confiscate were in the form of a plot of land and a building located in Ekas Buana Village, Jerowaru District, East Lombok Regency.

"One object of land and building in Ekas is now in the appraisal process of the appraisal team for further auction," he said.

In an effort to save assets in a corruption case that caused state financial losses of Rp36.4 billion, the East Lombok Kejari also traced the whereabouts of other assets belonging to two convicts who were members of the board of directors of PT AMG.

"Yesterday we last got data in the form of vehicles and other assets that are still in our search and pursuit in the field," he said.

The state financial losses that emerged from the results of the NTB BPKP audit have been charged by the panel of judges to Po Suwandi and Rinus Adam Wakum.

For Po Suwandi as Director of PT AMG, he was charged with compensation of Rp. 17.7 billion from the total state financial loss of Rp. 36.4 billion.

If within a one-month period since the decision has legal force, the convict is still unable to pay the state financial loss, the prosecutor must confiscate the property belonging to the convict.

However, if the property is not sufficient to cover the state's financial losses, the convict must replace it by serving a substitute sentence of six years.

For the convict Rinus Adam Wakum, who is the Head of the Branch of PT AMG East Lombok, he was charged with compensation for state financial losses of Rp. 18.7 billion, the rest of the losses that have been imposed on Po Suwandi. Subsidiary or imprisonment for a replacement for six years.