JAKARTA - The National Police's Food Task Force has named three suspects in cases of rice circulation that do not comply with quality standards or adulterated rice. One of the suspects is the President Director of PT Food Station, Gunarso Employee.
"Investigators have conducted a case title and found two pieces of evidence to increase the status of three employees of PT FS as suspects," said Head of the National Police Food Task Force who is also the Director of Special Economic Crimes at Bareskrim Polri, Brigadier General Helfi Assegaf to reporters, Jakarta, Friday, August 1.
Two other suspects, namely RL as Director of Operations and RP who served as Head of Quality Control Section.
The determination of the three suspects was made after investigators conducted a series of investigations and examinations on a number of parties, including witnesses, consumer protection experts, laboratory experts for product quality testing from the Ministry of Agriculture, as well as criminal experts.
"Business actors do production and trade premium rice not according to the quality standards of premium rice SNI," said Helfi.
The three of them are considered responsible for the production and distribution of premium rice that does not meet Indonesia's national standards (SNI).
During the investigation process, the police also confiscated evidence in the form of a total of 132.65 tons of rice, consisting of 127.3 tons of premium rice in 5 kilograms of various brands, produced by PT Food Station, 5.53 tons of premium rice in a 2.5 kilogram packaging, also produced by PT Food Station.
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The three suspects were charged with Article 62 in conjunction with Article 8 paragraph (1) letters a and f of Law Number 8 of 1999 concerning Consumer Protection, as well as Article 3, Article 4, and Article 5 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Crime of Money Laundering (TPPU).
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