Bareskrim Seizes IDR 157 Billion Assets In A Corruption Case For A BUMD Subsidiary

Director of Corruption Crimes at the National Police Criminal Investigation Agency Brigadier General Cahyono Wibowo /PHOTO: Rizky Adytia-VOI

JAKARTA - The Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police confiscated the assets of the suspect in the alleged corruption case in the procurement of goods and services for the construction of the Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) infrastructure by PT Jakarta Infrastruktur Propertindo (JIP) for the 2017-2018 period. The total reached Rp. 157 billion.

In this case, two people have been named suspects. They are former President Director (Director) of PT JIP Ario Pramadhi and VP of Finance & IT of PT JIP Christman Desanto.

"The total value of asset recovery in handling cases of corruption and money laundering in the construction of towers and the procurement of GPON is Rp. 157,526,802,000," said Director of Corruption Crimes at the Indonesian National Police, Brigadier General Cahyono Wibowo, when confirmed, Monday, June 13.

Based on the data, at least 11 assets have been confiscated. Some of them are plantation land in Tarabunga Village, Tampahan District, Toba Regency, North Sumatra with an area of 1,916 m2 worth IDR 2.5 billion.

There are also villas in Batulawang, Cipanas, Cianjur, West Java, worth IDR 1.5 billion. Then, PT Goesar Tiga Putra's office in Billymoon, East Jakarta for Rp45 billion

Meanwhile, the process of handling this case, continued Cahyono, is already in stage 1. This means that the investigator has transferred the case file to the research prosecutor to be checked for completeness.

If later declared complete, the investigator will immediately submit the suspect and evidence to the Attorney General's Office (AGO). On the other hand, investigators will complete the shortcomings according to the instructions of the prosecutor.

"Currently, stage 1 has been delegated to the prosecutor at the Indonesian Attorney General's Office, while the money laundering offenses case file is in the process of being completed to be immediately transferred to the public prosecutor at the Indonesian Attorney General's Office," said Cahyono.

For information, the investigation into this alleged corruption case began with a police report (LP) numbered LP/A/0072/II/2021/Bareskrim as of 5 February 2021. Until finally this case began to be investigated on 8 February 2021.

In the process, investigators named former PT JIP President Director (Director) Ario Pramadhi and PT JIP Finance & IT VP Christman Desanto as suspects.

The suspects were charged with Article 2 paragraph (1) and/or Article 3 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning amendments to Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Crimes Corruption Crime.