Police Have Named 5 New Suspects Of Fraud Cases At PT Asli Draft Indonesia

Karo Penmas, Police Public Relations Division, Brigadier General Ahmad Ramadhan (both from the right). (Rizky A-VOI)

The Directorate of Special Economic Crimes (Dittipideksus) of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police has again named five new suspects in cases of fraud and embezzlement with victims of PT Asli Draft Indonesia (ARI). In total, there are now six suspects in the case.

"Investigators from the Criminal Investigation Directorate of the National Police's Criminal Investigation Unit have named five new suspects in the investigation of alleged criminal acts of fraud and/or embezzlement and money laundering that occurred at PT ARI," said Head of Public Relations Division of the National Police Brigadier General Ahmad Ramadhan to reporters, Thursday, November 17.

The five suspects include Alim Sutamto (US), Fredy Widjaja (FW), Franciscus Januar Halim (FJ), Michael Cheung (MC) and Tedjo Soeprajogi Liman (TS).

They were named suspects because they were strongly suspected of helping the suspect Rionald Anggara Soerjanto in carrying out his crime.

"Based on the results of the investigation, the five suspects allegedly participated and assisted the main suspect RAS in committing fraud and/or embezzlement at PT ARI," said Ramadhan.

In addition, the role of the five suspects is as if they were resselers who marketed the PT Asli Draft Indonesia product.

In fact, continued Ramadhan, based on the facts of the investigation, they did not do the job at all.

"The suspects acted as engineering reselers who seemed to be working to market PT ARI products, thus receiving a sales commission of between 20 and 30 percent of the sales value," said Ramadhan.

"In fact, they accommodated funds resulting from fraud and embezzlement in various banking accounts with a value of more than Rp37 billion," he continued.

On the other hand, in handling this case, investigators have blocked accounts of the suspects. Where, the money in that account reaches hundreds of millions.

"Currently, investigators have blocked dozens of banking accounts in the names of the suspects and the funds stored in them. In addition, more than Rp500 million in cash has been confiscated by Polri investigators from the suspects," said Ramadhan.

For their actions, they are suspected of Article 372 of the Criminal Code and or 378 of the Criminal Code in conjunction with Article 55 of the Criminal Code or 56 of the Criminal Code and Articles 3, 4 or 5 of the 2010 Law concerning Prevention and Eradication of the Crime of Money Laundering.

For information, in this case, previously only Rionald Anggara Soerjanto was named a suspect. He played a role in creating engineering resellers that seemed to work on marketing the products of PT Asli Draft Indonesia.

For now, Rionald Anggara Soerjanto is just waiting for the trial process because his authority has been delegated to the South Jakarta District Attorney. This is because the case file is declared complete.