Former Director Of Perum Perindo Syahril Becomes A Suspect At The AGO, Detained In The Salemba Rutan

Investigators from the Attorney General's Office took the suspect in the alleged corruption case to the detention car, Wednesday (27/10/2021). (ANTARA/Laily Rahmawati)

JAKARTA - Former President Director of the Indonesian Fisheries Public Company (Perum Perindo) Syahril Japarin has been named a suspect at the Attorney General's Office. He was named a suspect in the Perum Perindo case for the 2016-2019 period.

The Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) of the Attorney General's Office, Leonard Eben Ezer Simanjuntak, said that Syahril Japarin was the President Director of Perum Perindo for the 2016-2017 period.

"Currently, the person concerned is working as the Deputy for Business Facilities for the Batam Business Administration Agency (BP)," said Leonard at the Attorney General's Office, Jakarta, Wednesday, October 27.

Besides Syahril, Leonard said, the Attorney General's Office investigators also named another suspect with the initials RU.

The suspect RU refers to Riyanto Utomo, who is the President Director of PT Global Prima Santosa.

Apart from being named as suspects, both of them were also detained after being examined first as witnesses.

The detention of the two suspects was carried out separately, Syahril Japarin was detained at the Salemba Detention Center of the South Jakarta District Attorney's Office, while Riyanto Utomo was detained at the Salemba Rutan of the Attorney General's Office.

"To speed up the investigation process, detention was carried out for 20 days," said Leonard.

As for the role of the suspect, Leonard explained, Syahril when he served as President Director of Perum Perindo issued medium-term debt securities (MTN) and received funds of Rp. 200 billion, consisting of certificates of Jumbo A Series and Jumbo B Series certificates in 2017.

According to Leonard, MTN is an effort to get funds by selling prospects. However, the use of MTN funds is not used as intended.

"The MTN Series A and Series B as referred to are mostly used by the fish trading business managed by the Perum Perindo Catching, Trading and Management Division or the Strategy Business Unit (SBU), Fish Trip and Processing (FPP) in using the trading business method. The fish trade is a broken fish trading method," said Leonard. Meanwhile, the suspect, Ryanto Utomo, is one of the parties who entered into fish trade cooperation using fictitious transactions carried out by Perum Perindo without a cooperation agreement.

"Then there is no report on the handover of goods, no reports on the sale and purchase of fish, and nothing from Perum Perindo has been placed in handing over fish from suppliers to Perum Perindo's business partners," Leonard said.

Attorney General's Office investigators applied Article 2 Paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 18 of the Corruption Eradication Law in conjunction with Article 55 Paragraph (1) of the 1st KUHP subsidiary Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of the Corruption Eradication Law in conjunction with Article 55 Paragraph (1) of the 1st KUHP against the two suspects .

The determination of the two new suspects adds to the number of suspects in alleged corruption cases related to the misuse of medium term notes (MTN) for the 2016-2019 period.

Previously, Thursday, October 21, investigators had named former Vice President of Perum Perindo's P3 Division Wenny Prihatini, Director of PT Prima Pangan Madani Lalam Sarlam, and Director of PT Kemilau Bintang Timur with the initials Nabil M Basyuni as suspects.

Even though there are suspects, the value of state losses is still being audited by the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK).