Attorney General's Office Submits CPO Import Corruption Case Files For Research

JAKARTA - The Junior Attorney General's Investigator for Special Crimes at the Attorney General's Office has transferred the case files of five suspects in cases of alleged corruption in the provision of export facilities for crude palm oil (CPO) and its derivatives to the public prosecutor.

"Wednesday 15 June 2022, the Investigating Prosecutor's Team at the Jampidsus Investigation Directorate has submitted five case files on behalf of five suspects to the Prosecution Directorate for research in accordance with Article 110 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Procedure Code," said the Head of the Attorney General's Legal Information Center, Ketut Sumedana, in a written statement quoted by Antara, Wednesday, June 15.

The five suspects in this case consist of one from the government and four from the private sector.

The five suspects, namely Indrasari Wisnu Wardhana as the director general of Foreign Trade at the Ministry of Trade.

Then four 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.

The suspects were charged with primary article 2 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31/1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended and supplemented by Law Number 20/2001 concerning Amendments to Law Number 31/1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code.

Then, subsidiary to Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31/1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended and added to Law Number 20/2001 concerning Amendments to Law Number 31/1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) to -1 of the Criminal Code.

"Furthermore, the case file will be examined by the research prosecutor (Prosecutor P.16) who is appointed within a period of seven days to determine whether the case file can be declared complete or not formally or materially (P.18) and seven days to provide instructions (P.18). 19) if the case file is not complete," he said.