AGO Has Detained 4 Suspects Of The Garam Import Corruption Case

One of the corruption suspects in salt imports from the Ministry of Industry is wearing a pink vest/VIA BETWEEN

Investigators from the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) of the Attorney General's Office have detained four suspects in the alleged corruption case of importing salt in the 2016 to 2022 industry. The detention of the four suspects was carried out separately. Three suspects from the Ministry of Industry were detained at the Salemba Detention Center, the Attorney General's Office Branch and one suspect at the Salemba Rutan, South Jakarta District Attorney's Branch. The three suspects detained at the Salemba Rutan, the Attorney General's Office, are Muh. Khayam as Director General of Pharmaceutical and Textile Chemicals of the Ministry of Industry for the period 2019 —2022, Fredy Juwono as Director of the Ministry of Industry's Hulu Chemical Industry, Yosi Arfianto as Head of the Hulu Chemical Industry Sub-Directorate of the Ministry of Industry. One suspect Frederik Tony Tanduk as Chairman of the Indonesian Salt User Industry Association is being held at the Salemba Rutan, South Jakarta District Attorney's Branch. "The suspect is detained for 20 days starting from November 2 to November 21, 2022," said the Head of the Attorney General's Office, Ketut Sumedana, in Jakarta in Jakarta, Antara, Wednesday, November 2. The suspects are suspected of Article 2 paragraph (1) and Article 3 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code. The rasuah mode by the four suspects, he said, was jointly engineering the data to determine the amount of salt quota. The data collected was unverified, engineered, without the support of evidence so that when the export quota was set there was a lot of loss. Therefore, there is absorption of goods into the consumption salt industry market. So, he continued, the situation became the price of industrial salt to consumption, so that the determination of the salt quota by the Government became invalid due to the actions of the suspects. Director of Investigation Jampidsus Kuntadi said that the investigation was still ongoing. A number of parties will be examined, not even closing the possibility of leaders from the Ministry of Industry during the period of the case, from 2016 to 2022. It is known that during that period, the Ministry of Industry was led by Airlangga Hartanto, then replaced by Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita for the 2019 — 2024 period. In this case, investigators once asked for information from former Minister of Fisheries and Marine Affairs Susi Pudjiastuti on Friday (7/10). Kuntadi said that all parties have the opportunity to be examined and asked for information from their urgency. This is because the engineering of the salt import quota by the suspects starts from below. "Earlier it was explained, the engineering was from below, meaning we saw the urgency at what point the cause was," said Kuntadi.