THE Attorney General’s Office (AGO) examined a witness from a private company related to the alleged corruption case in the sugar import activities of PT Sumber Mutiara Indah Perdana (SMIP) in 2020-2023. The witness was from PT Bahari Sandi Pratama.
“The witness who was questioned had the initials HB as the Owner of PT Bahari Sandi Pratama,” said the Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) of the Attorney General’s Office, Harli Siregar in a written statement, Thursday, July 18, 2024.
However, Harli did not reveal the results of the examination. According to him, the examination was carried out by the Deputy Attorney General’s Special Crimes (Jampidsus) investigation team related to the investigation of the alleged corruption case of sugar imports on behalf of suspects RD and RR.
“Witness examination was conducted to strengthen the evidence and complete the files in the case in question,” said Harli.
For information, there are two suspects in this case. They are the Head of the Riau Customs Regional Office (Kanwil) for the 2019-2021 period, Ronny Rosfyandi (RR), and RD who is the Director of PT SMIP.
Based on the investigation, RD is suspected of manipulating raw crystal sugar import data by entering white crystal sugar. RD also replaced the packaging sacks as if he had imported raw crystal sugar to then be sold on the domestic market.
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RD’s actions are contrary to the Regulation of the Minister of Trade Juncto the Regulation of the Minister of Industry and other Laws and Regulations, so that there is a state financial loss in the sugar import activities carried out by PT SMIP. For his actions, RD was charged with Article 2 Paragraph 1 and Article 3 Juncto Article 18 of the Corruption Law Juncto Article 55 Paragraph 1 ke-1 of the Criminal Code.
Meanwhile, RR is considered to have played a role in perpetuating this corrupt practice. RR used his authority to commit unlawful acts by revoking the decision to freeze the bonded zone permit of PT SMIP with the aim of bringing in sugar imports.
RR is also suspected of allowing activities in the bonded zone. Thus, PT SMIP can be free even though it was previously frozen. For his actions, RR is suspected of violating Article 2 paragraph 1 and Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph 1 point 1 of the Criminal Code. (Z-7)
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