Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia-The Attorney General's Office has opened its voice regarding the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK)'s steps to begin investigating corruption cases at the Indonesian Export Financing Institution (LPEI). The Attorney General's Office stated that it was ready to coordinate regarding the handling of this case.
“KPK friends, if you want to coordinate,” said Head of the Attorney General's Legal Information Center, Ketut Sumedana, Wednesday (20/3/2024).
Ketut said coordination needed to be carried out to clarify the essence of the cases being handled by each institution. The prosecutor's office, he said, does not want there to be overlap in handling cases between legal officers.
“We are open and do not want any overlap in handling cases,” he said.
Previously, the Attorney General's Office received a report from the Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani regarding alleged corruption in the distribution of credit facilities at LPEI. In the report carried out Monday (18/3/2024), the state treasurer reported that there were 4 cases of problematic credit distribution which were suspected to be fraud with a total of IDR 2.5 trillion. Receiving the report, Attorney General Sanitiar Burhanuddin stated that he would study it.
However, the day after Sri Mulyani's report, the Corruption Eradication Commission announced that its agency was investigating a similar corruption case at LPEI. The Corruption Eradication Commission stated that it had received this report on May 10 2023 or earlier from the AGO. The Corruption Eradication Committee (KPK) was reluctant to say who was the party who reported the case.
From the results of the investigation, the Corruption Eradication Committee suspects that one of the companies involved had the initials PT PE. The company, which operates in the distribution of fuel oil, allegedly received loans amounting to US$ 22 million and Rp. 600 billion in the 2015-2017 period.
The Corruption Eradication Committee (KPK) found allegations of irregularities committed by the financing committee at LPEI in distributing credit to PT PE. As a result, the state is suspected to have lost IDR 766 billion. Even though it has carried out an investigation, the Corruption Eradication Commission has not named a suspect.
Deputy Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Committee, Alexander Marwata, said that his agency would coordinate with the Attorney General's Office regarding handling this case. If the essence of the case being handled is the same, then the Corruption Eradication Commission will take over the case because it has already issued an Investigation Order.
“If the object is the same, of course we will handle it because we have published Sprindik,” he said.
Ketut Sumedana said that the Attorney General's Office had just received and studied reports of alleged corruption at LPEI. However, he questioned which LPEI cases were being handled by the KPK. He said there were many cases at LPEI, some even had permanent legal force.
“What is meant by stopping and which is being handled by the Corruption Eradication Committee,” he said.
“There are even LPEI cases related to general crimes handled by the National Police Headquarters, so we need coordination in handling this case, the mechanism already exists,” said Ketut continued.
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