CPO Export Corruption Case, AGO Checks President Director Of Alfamart

JAKARTA - The Attorney General's Office examined the President Director of PT Sumber Alfaria Trijaya (Alfamart) with the initials AHP as a witness in the investigation into the case of granting export facilities of "crude palm oil" (CPO) and its derivatives.

"Jampidsus investigators examined one witness, namely AHP as President Director of PT Sumber Alfaria Trijaya," said the Head of the Attorney General's Office for Legal Information (Kapuspenkum) Ketut Sumedana in a written statement quoted by Antara, Friday, May 20.

AHP was examined as a witness related to the investigation of cases of alleged corruption in the provision of export facilities for CPO and its derivatives from January 2021 to March 2022.

"Witness examination is carried out to strengthen evidence and complete the case filing," said Ketut.

Previously, Thursday (19/5), the investigating prosecutor examined YB as Director of Charoen Pokphand Indonesia Tbk as a witness in the case.

The AGO has named 5 suspects in the corruption case in granting export facilities for CPO and its derivative products, including cooking oil, which occurred from January 2021 to March 2022.

The five suspects are Indrasari Wisnu Wardhana as the Director General of Foreign Trade (Dirjen Daglu) of the Ministry of Trade. Then 4 other people from the private sector, namely Master Parulian Tumanggor as Commissioner of PT Wilmar Nabati Indonesia, Senior Manager of Corporate Affairs of PT Pelita Agung Agrindustri/Permata Hijau Group Stanley MA.

Next was Picare Tagore Sitanggang as General Manager at the General Affairs Section of PT Musim Mas and founder and policy/analyst advisor to PT Independent Research & Advisodry Indonesia Lin Che Wei.

As a result of the actions of the suspects resulted in state economic losses in the form of expensiveness and scarcity of cooking oil, resulting in a decrease in household consumption and small industries that use cooking oil and complicate people's lives.