Attorney General's Office Designates 7 Suspects in Petral Corruption Case, Including Riza Chalid

The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) has designated seven suspects in the alleged corruption case at Pertamina Energy Trading Limited (Petral) from 2008 to 2015. One of the seven suspects designated is oil businessman Mohammad Riza Chalid (MRC). “Today, the investigative team from the Attorney General’s Office has designated seven individuals as suspects in the case of alleged procurement of crude oil and refinery products at Petral from 2008 to 2015,” stated Director of Investigations at the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Dirdik Jampidsus) Syarief Sulaeman Nahdi during a press conference at the Attorney General’s Office in South Jakarta on Thursday (9/4/2026). Syarief explained that in this case, the AGO discovered a leak of internal information from PT Petral regarding crude oil product needs. “The investigative team found facts of actions involving the leakage of Petral’s internal confidential information related to crude oil and gasoline needs,” he said. Syarief then detailed the seven suspects as follows: 1. BBG, as Manager of Marketing and Trading at Pertamina’s Marketing and Trading Directorate; 2. AGS, as Head of Trading at Pertamina Energy Services (PES) from 2012 to 2014; 3. MLY, as Senior Trader at Petral from 2009 to 2015; 4. NRD; 5. TFK, as VP of ISC at PT Pertamina; 6. MRC, as Beneficial Owner of several companies participating in the tender; 7. IRW, as Director of companies owned by MRC. The suspects, Syarief continued, are alleged to have violated Article 2 and subsidiarily Article 3 of the Law on the Eradication of Corruption Crimes. Five suspects will be detained in a detention centre for the next 20 days. “As for one suspect named BBG, based on health examination results, he will be subject to city detention,” Syarief revealed. “Then, for one suspect, namely MRC, he is already a DPO (Most Wanted List) for the Attorney General’s Office,” he added. The AGO stated that the value of state losses in this case is still in the process of calculation with BPKP.