Blast Furnace Factory Corruption, AGO Examines Three Former Directors Of Krakatau Steel

Chief of the Attorney General's Office of Penuspenkum Ketut Sumedana/DOK AGO

JAKARTA - The Attorney General's Office (AGO) examined three former directors as witnesses related to the alleged corruption case in the Blast Furnace factory construction project by PT Krakatau Steel in 2011.

"The witness being examined, namely FP as the former Director of Operations 1 at PT Krakatau Engineering, was examined in relation to the investigation into the alleged corruption case in the construction project of the blast furnace steel smelting plant by PT Krakatau Steel in 2011," said the Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) at the Attorney General's Office. Agung Ketut Sumedana was reported by ANTARA, Thursday, July 21.

The team of Investigating Prosecutors at the Directorate of Investigations of the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) of the Attorney General's Office also examined two other former directors.

The two former directors are IK as Director of Marketing at PT Krakatau Steel for the period November 2007-June 2012 and TPSS as Director of Finance at PT Krakatau Steel for the period 2016-2018.

Sumedana said the two witnesses were also questioned in connection with the investigation into the alleged corruption case at the blast furnace steel smelting plant construction project by PT Krakatau Steel in 2011 on behalf of Suspect FB, Suspect ASS, Suspect BP, Suspect HW alias RH, and Suspect MR.

The Attorney General's Office has named five suspects in the alleged criminal act of corruption at the blast furnace steel smelter by PT Krakatau Steel.

One of the five suspects, namely the suspect Fazwar Bujang (FB) who is a former President Director of PT Krakatau Steel, has been in city detention for 20 days because he is sick.

Meanwhile, two other suspects were detained at the Salemba Rutan at the AGO Branch, namely Andi Soko Setiabudi (ASS) as Deputy Director of Strategic Projects for PT Krakatau Steel for the period 2010-2012 and Muhammad Reza (MR) as Project Manager for PT Krakatau Engineering for the period 2013-2016.

Furthermore, two other suspects were detained at the Salemba Class I Rutan, Central Jakarta, namely Bambang Purnomo (BP) as the President Director of PT Krakatau Engineering for the 2012-2015 period and Hernanto Wiryomijoyo (HW) alias Raden Hernanto (RH) as the Head of the Project Preparation and Implementation Team. Blast Furnance in 2011 as well as General Manager of the PT Krakatau Steel Project for the 2013-2019 period.