Jakarta –
The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) has named former Askrindo Director Anton Fadjar A Siregar as a new suspect in the alleged corruption case in the financial management of PT Askrindo Mitra Utama (PT AMU) for the 2016-2020 fiscal year. Anton was immediately arrested.
“The investigative team at the Directorate of Investigations of the Junior Attorney General for Special Crimes has named one suspect related to the corruption crime of managing the finances of PT Askrindo Mitra Utama or PT AMU for the 2016-2020 fiscal year,” said the Head of the AGO, Leonard Eben Ezer Simanjuntak, at a press conference at the Jakarta Building Jampidsus Roundabout, South Jakarta, Monday (8/11/2021).
“One person has been named a suspect. The initial suspects are AFS as Director of Retail Operations at PT Askrindo and at the same time Commissioner of PT Askrindo Mitra Utama,” he added.
Leonard explained that the role of the suspect Anton was to ask for and receive part of the share unauthorized commission from PT AMU. It is known in this case that there was an unauthorized disbursement of agent commission from PT Askrindo to its subsidiary, PT Askrindo Mitra Utama, which was carried out by diverting direct production (direct) PT Askrindo becomes as if production is not directly through PT AMU (indirect).
“The role of the suspect, namely the AFS suspect, requests and receives part of the share illegal commission from PT AMU,” he said.
The suspect Anton was detained for the next 20 days at the Salemba Rutan, the South Jakarta District Attorney’s Office. Anton was detained from today until November 27.
“In order to speed up the investigation process, the person concerned was detained for 20 days starting from November 8 to November 27, 2021. The suspect is being held at the Salemba Rutan, Kejari, South Jakarta,” he said.
The suspect is suspected in Article 2 paragraph 1 or Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 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 Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code.
This case began in the period 2016-2020, when there was an unauthorized disbursement of agent commissions from PT Askrindo to its subsidiary, PT Askrindo Mitra Utama, which was carried out by diverting direct production (direct) PT Askrindo becomes as if production is not directly through PT AMU (indirect) which was later re-issued to individuals at PT Askrindo in cash as if it were an operational expense without being supported by evidence of liability or supplemented by fictitious evidence of liability, resulting in state financial losses.
In this case, investigators have confiscated a sum of money from the commission’s share of Rp 611,428,130 (million), USD 762,900 and SGD 32 thousand. Meanwhile, the BPKP team is currently calculating state financial losses.
“Currently, the state loss calculation is being carried out by the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP),” he said.
The AGO has previously named two suspects. The two suspects are WW, a former employee of PT Askrindo Mitra Utama and former Marketing Director of PT Askrindo Mitra Utama (PT AMU); and FB, former employee of PT Askrindo and former Director of Compliance and HR of PT Askrindo.
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