JAKARTA - The Attorney General's Office (Kejagung) has named Mohammad Riza Chalid and six others as suspects in the alleged corruption case in the procurement of crude oil and refinery products at Pertamina Energy Trading Ltd. (Petral) in 2008-2015.
Director of Investigation (Dirdik) of the Attorney General's Office for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) of the Indonesian Attorney General's Office, Syarief Sulaeman Nahdi, said that Riza Chalid was named a suspect for his role in the beneficial ownership of Gold Manor, VeritaOil, and Global Energy Resources (GER).
The other suspect is IRW as a private party or director of companies owned by Riza Chalid.
Then, BBG as the Commercial Manager of the Marketing and Commercial Directorate of PT Pertamina and the last position as Managing Director of Pertamina Energy Service (PES).
Furthermore, AGS as Head Of trading PES period 2012-2014.
Next is MLY as Senior TraderPES for the period 2009-2015. Then, suspect NRD as Crude Trading Manager PES.
Finally, the suspect TFK as VP of Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) of PT Pertamina with the last position as President Director of PT Pertamina International Shipping (PIS).
Syarief said in the case, Riza Chalid selakubeneficial owner of several companies together with the suspect IRW through several companies owned by him or companies affiliated with him, has influenced the procurement or tender process for crude oil, refinery products, and transportation.
"Communication can be in the form of tender conditioning, information on HPS (own estimated price), so that adamark up or price unaffordability because the procurement becomes non-competitive," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, April 9.
In the end, the procurement of crude oil and refinery products was carried out which caused losses for PT Pertamina.
After being named as a suspect, the five suspects will be detained in the detention center for the next 20 days. Meanwhile, the suspect BBG became a city prisoner based on the results of a health examination and Riza Chalid is still at large.
"Regarding one of the suspects, namely MRC, this has indeed become a DPO (list of people to be searched) for the Prosecutor's Office," said Syarief.
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