Not Fit After Long Travel, Rp78 Trillion Corruption Suspect Surya Darmadi Continues To Be Examined On Thursday

Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) of the Indonesian Attorney General's Office Ketut Sumedana/ANTARA

JAKARTA - Investigators from the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) at the Attorney General's Office scheduled a follow-up examination of Surya Darmadi, a suspect in the alleged corruption in the control of oil palm lands that cost the state Rp78 trillion, Thursday, August 18.

"(Further investigation) Thursday, 10:00 WIB," said Head of the Attorney General's Office for Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) Ketut Sumedana when confirmed in Jakarta, Antara, Tuesday, August 16.

It is planned that the investigation of Surya Darmadi will continue today. However, due to his unwell condition after a long trip from Taiwan and arriving in Indonesia on Monday, August 15 yesterday, he immediately underwent the first examination for three hours.

"The person concerned is still not fit, because of the long journey," said Ketut.

Previously, the Director of Investigations of Jampidsus Supardi said that the investigation of Surya Darmadi was continued today by investigators of the Round building.

"That's right, I will coordinate later, I also met the investigator earlier. Tomorrow's plan (today), hopefully tomorrow there will be no obstacles. Let's just come here later," said Supardi, Monday, August 15 evening.

Surya Darmadi is known to have surrendered after being named a suspect by prosecutors investigators a few weeks ago. After landing in Indonesia, he went straight to the Round Building to fulfill the investigator's summons to undergo examination as a suspect.

The founder of PT Duta Palma Group was named a suspect in the alleged corruption case of 37,095 hectares of oil palm land in Indragiri Hulu Regency, Riau Province.

He was appointed together with Raja Thamsir Rachman as the Regent of Indragiri Hulu for the 1999-2008 period.

The two suspects are suspected of violating the primary Article 2 paragraph (1) Jo. Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Corruption Crimes as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning Amendments to Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Corruption Crimes Jo. Article 55 paragraph (1) 1 of the Criminal Code.

With subsidiary Article 3 Jo. Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Corruption Crimes as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning Amendments to Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Corruption Crimes Jo. Article 55 paragraph (1) 1 of the Criminal Code.

Especially for the suspect Surya Darmadi, he is also suspected of violating Article 3 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Eradication of the Crime of Money Laundering or Article 4 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Eradication of the Crime of Money Laundering.

On Monday (1/8), Attorney General Sanitiar Burhanuddin revealed that the estimated state financial and economic losses caused by the case reached Rp78 trillion.