The Attorney General's Office Confiscates Asabri Suspect Edward Seky Soeryadjaya's IDR 20 Billion

Edward Seky Soeryadjaya. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - Investigators of the Junior Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) The Attorney General's Office (Kejagung) confiscated assets belonging to Edward Seky Soeryadjaya (ESS), a suspect in the mega-corruption case of PT Asabri (Persero).

The Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) of the Indonesian Attorney General's Office, Ketut Sumedana, said the assets seized were in the form of IDR 20 billion.

"Jampidsus investigators have confiscated assets belonging to suspect ESS in the form of IDR 20 billion via Bank Mandiri transfer on behalf of the Attorney General's Office of the Republic of Indonesia," said Ketut in a written statement, quoted from Antara, Wednesday, June 1.

He explained that the confiscation was carried out in connection with cases of alleged criminal acts of corruption in the management of finance and investment funds by PT Asabri (Persero) in several companies for the period 2012 to 2019.

The confiscation was carried out based on the Investigation Order of the Director of Investigation of the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes Number: Prin-28/F.2/Fd.2/09/2021 dated September 14, 2021, and the Order of Confiscation of the Director of Investigations of the Junior Attorney General for Special Crimes Number: Prin -233/F.2/Fd.2/10/2021 dated October 8, 2021.

"Furthermore, the money is used as evidence in the said case," said Ketut.

Edward Seky Soeryadjaya, as the former Director of Ortos Holding. He was named a suspect along with two other people, namely former President Commissioner of PT Sinergi Millennium Sekuritas Betty Halim, Commissioner of PT Sekawan Inti Pratama Rennier Abdul Rachman Latief on Tuesday, September 14, 2021.

The three suspects have the status of convicts and defendants in a number of other corruption cases.

The three suspects were charged with Article 2 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the 1st KUHP subsidiary Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Corruption Crimes in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code.

The role of Edward Seky Soeryadjaya as an entrepreneur in this case, around 2012, there was a meeting between the Directors of PT Asabri with Edwar Seky and Betty related to the plan to sell shares of SUGI (PT Sugih Energi Tbk).

After the meeting, Edwar Seky then asked Betty as Commissioner of PT Millennium Danatama Sekuritas and LAC as Owner of PT Millennium Capital Management to sell SUGI shares, with an agreement that if Betty could sell one SUGI share, he would get two SUGI shares.

Based on the agreement, Betty, who manages SUGI's shares, actively conducts transactions among her own nominees, thereby successfully increasing SUGI's share price.

Betty was then given 250,000,000,000 SUGI shares by Edwar Seky whose transactions were carried out on a Free of Payment (FOP) basis through the ES nominee at Millennium Danatama Sekuritas.

From 2013 to 2015, after successfully increasing SUGI's share price through its nominees at PT Millennium Danatama Sekuritas, Betty then sold SUGI's shares to PT Asabri. However, because SUGI's shares did not have good fundamentals and were not liquid stocks, there was a decline in price.

Meanwhile, the remaining SUGI shares in PT Asabri's stock portfolio were then sold below the cut loss to PT Tricore Kapital Sarana.