AGO Develops TPPU Bitcoin Corruption Suspect PT Asbari

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JAKARTA - The Attorney General's Office (Kejagung) has developed a money laundering channel for three suspected corruption suspects of PT Asabri. They are suspected of using the proceeds of corruption for Bitcoin transactions.

"Of the three, the TPPU is currently developing where, if there is a mode of laundering, investigators are looking for, including one of us suspecting that transactions were laundered through Bitcoin," said the Investigation Director of the Junior Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) Febrie Adriansyah to reporters. , Monday, April 19.

But Febrie said, the team of education has not been able to confirm the nominal amount of these bitcoin transactions. The investigation team is still calculating the exact nominal value of the transaction.

"We are still deepening it. Obviously there are several transactions through it but we have not yet got the certainty of the value and we have not got the real value that we can secure there. We still deepen it," he said.

For information, three corruption suspects of PT Asabri who committed the Crime of Money Laundering (TPP) using bitcoin transaction mode, among others, Benny Tjokrosaputro, Heru Hidayat, and Jimmy Sutopo.

Meanwhile, the Attorney General's Office stated that the provisional value of the confiscated assets of the 9 suspects in the PT Asabri corruption case reached Rp. 10.5 trillion.

This value is still a temporary estimate of the assets of the suspected corruption suspects of PT. Asabri, whether in the form of mines, land, buildings, jewelry, checks, ships to luxury vehicles.

In this case, the AGO investigators estimated the value of the state's financial loss to be Rp. 23.73 trillion. The state losses in this case were far greater than in the Jiwasraya case.