THE Attorney General’s Office of the Republic of Indonesia (AGO RI) examined six witnesses in connection with the alleged corruption case in the sugar import activities of PT Sumber Mutiara Indah Perdana (SMIP) in 2020-2023.
The six witnesses examined were the Director of Customs Facilities of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise (DJBC) in 2017 (RT), the Technical Director and Excise Facilities or Head of the Riau DJBC Regional Office for the 2017-2019 period (IRY), P2 Staff at the Central DJBC (NAA), P2 Staff at the Central DJBC (GFBB), the 2023 Monsus team at the Central DJBC (PS) and the 2023 Monsus team at the Central DJBC (AFR).
Head of the Attorney General’s Office’s Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum), Harli Siregar, said that the examination of the six witnesses was carried out to strengthen evidence and complete the files in the case on behalf of suspects RD and RR.
“Regarding this case, the investigation team has named two suspects, namely RD as Director of PT SMIP and RR as Head of the Riau Customs Regional Office (Kanwil) for the 2019-2021 period,” said Harli, Wednesday (3/7).
Harli revealed that in 2021, RD allegedly manipulated the import data of red crystal sugar by entering white crystal sugar. He replaced the packaging sacks as if he had imported red crystal sugar to be sold in the domestic market.
RD’s actions, said Harli, are contrary to the Regulation of the Minister of Trade in conjunction with the Regulation of the Minister of Industry and other laws and regulations.
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“Meanwhile, RR from September 2019 to 2021 is suspected of breaking the law by abusing his authority by revoking the Decision to Freeze the Bonded Zone Permit of PT SMIP following RR received money from the suspect RD,” explained Harli.
“The money was given by PT SMIP under the pretext of processing raw materials in the Bonded Zone, even intentionally not revoking the Bonded Building permit even though it knew that PT SMIP had imported white crystal caves that did not comply with its permit,” he added.
For its actions in 2020 to 2023, PT SMIP has imported a total of approximately 25 thousand tons of sugar and placed it in Bonded Zones and Bonded Buildings that are not in accordance with laws and regulations. (P-5)
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