Former Director Of PT Jasindo Charged With State Loss Of IDR 38.21 Billion

The trial of reading the indictment of the alleged corruption case of PT Jasindo's fictitious agent at the Jakarta Corruption Court (Tipikor), Thursday (19/12/2024). ANTARA/Agatha Olivia Victoria

JAKARTA - Director of Business Development of PT Asuransi Jasa Indonesia or Jasindo (Persero) 2019-2020 Sahata Lumbantobing was charged with corruption, causing a loss to state finances of IDR 38.21 billion.

The Public Prosecutor (JPU) of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Agus Prasetya Raharja revealed that the corruption case was allegedly carried out together, including the Chairman of the Savings and Loans Cooperative (KSP) Dana Karya Toras Sotarduga from 2016 to 2020.

"The corruption was carried out by engineering the agency activities of PT Mitra Bina Selaras (PT MBS) and receiving agent commission payments from PT Jasindo even though PT MBS was not registered in the official insurance company list," said the Public Prosecutor in a hearing reading the indictment at the Jakarta Corruption Court (Tipikor). ) reported by ANTARA, Thursday, December 19.

The public prosecutor assessed that the corruption act had enriched Sahata by Rp525.42 million, Toras Rp7.66 billion, Head of the Office of PT Jasindo Branch S. Parman Jakarta in 2017-2019 Ari Prabowo Rp23.55 billion, and Head of the Office of PT Jasindo Pemuda Jakarta Branch 2018-2020 Mochamad Fauzi Ridwan Rp1.95 billion.

Then, enriching the Head of the Makassar Branch PT Jasindo Office for 2018-2019 Yoki Tri Yuni Rp1.75 billion, Head of the Semarang Branch PT Jasindo Office for 201-2021 Umam Tauvik for Rp1.43 billion, and PT Bank BNI (Persero) for Rp1.34 billion.

During the trial, Toras was also charged with the same article for jointly committing the same act, while the other party would be charged in a separate file.

The prosecutor explained that the corruption case began when Sahata invited Toras, who was his schoolmate, to provide bailout funds, whose returns and profits, to be given through the agent commission.

For this reason, Sahata asked Toras to be willing to become an agent of PT Jasindo. At the invitation, Toras still asked for time to think.

Then in January 2017, Ari and the Head of the Marketing Unit of the S. Parman Agus Sugiarto Branch Office received a recommendation from Fauzi regarding the opportunity for a credit life insurance business, especially micro credit at Bank Mandiri and directed the job to Ari because Branch Office S. Parman is a banking-specific retail branch office.

Based on this directive, Ari met with the Head of the Micro Credit Division of Bank Mandiri Wawan Setyawan at Plaza Bank Mandiri, Jakarta. During the meeting, Wawan asked for a commission-based or fee-based income of 25 percent including a value-added tax (VAT) for the Micro Credit Guarantee program.

Meanwhile, for the micro-business credit guarantee program, Wawan asked for commission-based income of 17.5 percent including VAT which is paid every 20 months in accordance with the premium paid by Bank Mandiri customers.

"After the meeting, Ari met with Sahata and conveyed the results of the meeting regarding the commission-based income request," said the prosecutor.

Then, Sahata directed Ari to use his friend's company to be used as an agent so that he could accommodate the commission-based income to Bank Mandiri and various costs of Sahata's needs that were charged to the S. Parman Branch Office.

With Ari's information, Sahata contacted Toras to ask for his willingness to become an agent at PT Jasindo which was approved by Toras. After that, Sahata asked to meet with Toras with the team at Cafe Paul, SCBD Jakarta area to discuss directly the requirements as an agent.

During the meeting, the Public Prosecutor revealed that Sahata again submitted a request for Toras to establish a company that would be used as a special agent to provide bailout funds to pay commission-based income and payment of insured claims first and to provide commitment fees to finance Sahata expenses and be approved by Toras.

"With this agreement, Toras submitted a commission of 15 percent, but because he had not agreed on the amount, Sahata asked that it be taken care of at the S. Parman Branch Office," said the Public Prosecutor.

Following up on Sahata's directive, Toras then founded PT MBS in accordance with the Limited Company Establishment Deed. By appointing him as an agent of PT Jasindomaka PT MBS, he can apply and receive agent commission payments from PT Jasindo even though actually PT MBS is not an agent who actually closed customers (who received customers) on PT Jasindo insurance.

Furthermore, in a meeting, Ari said that the commission Toras would receive through PT MBS was six percent to eight percent, but was rejected by Toras until it was agreed that the commission received by Toras through PT MBS was 10 percent.

Meanwhile, the 90 percent agent commission will be returned by PT MBS to the office of PT Jasindo Branch S. Parman, whose submission and return will be handled by Dedi Supriyadi.

Thus, the Public Prosecutor stated that Sahata's actions together with Toras and so on had cost the state finances of Rp. 38.21 billion, which included the payment of the PT MBS agent commission for the 2017-2020 period of Rp. 75.47 billion minus the payment of Bank Mandiri commission-based income for the 2017-2019 period of Rp. 37.26 billion.