Attorney General's Office Raids Zarof Ricar's Shell Company
The Attorney General’s Office (Kejagung) raided a shell company established by former Supreme Court (MA) official Zarof Ricar to hide the proceeds of his crimes.
Director of Investigation for the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes, Syarief Sulaeman Nahdi, stated that the existence of the shell company was discovered after designating film producer Agung Winarno of ‘Sang Pengadil’ as a money laundering suspect for Zarof.
“The Special Criminal Investigation Team of the Attorney General’s Office successfully uncovered a Shadow Company or ghost or shadow company,” he said in a written statement on Wednesday (22/4).
He explained that there were two shell companies with initials G and M used by Zarof and Agung to hold the proceeds of case brokering crimes at the MA. Those accounts, he said, were also used to disguise the wealth obtained by Zarof from case brokering.
“Established by suspect AW together with suspect ZR as a company for holding the proceeds of crime in money laundering by ZR and other affiliated parties,” he stated.
From the raid, investigators also seized land documents, cash, buildings, and land certificates. However, Syarief has not yet disclosed further details regarding the amount of cash and gold seized.
“Approximately 1,046 documents, palm oil plantations, houses/buildings, companies and a hotel, as well as money in foreign currency and rupiah,” he explained.
“Then deposits, luxury cars, and gold bars during the raid and seizure activities by the Attorney General’s Investigation Team,” he added.
Furthermore, Syarief said that his office will continue to pursue assets belonging to Zarof Ricar. This is because Zarof is suspected of still hiding various assets from the proceeds of crime, in line with the findings from the documents seized by investigators.
This includes Zarof’s modus operandi of using several paper companies in an attempt to hide assets from the proceeds of his crimes in the alleged case brokering while serving as an MA official.
“The Attorney General’s Investigation Team has designated ZR as a suspect in Money Laundering Offences (TPPU). And suspect AW is also a TPPU suspect,” he said.
Previously, Kejagung designated film producer Agung Winarno (AW) as a suspect in Money Laundering Offences in the bribery and gratification case of former MA official Zarof Ricar.
Syarief said that the two knew each other and were involved in a film project titled Sang Pengadil. The film tells the story of a young judge’s struggle against the shadows of corruption and past trauma due to the tragic death of his father, who was also a judge.
“So suspect AW, together with convict Zarof Ricar, had a project at that time, and during that project, they were already in intensive communication,” he said during a press conference on Thursday (16/4).
In 2025, he said, Zarof then contacted Agung to entrust several of his assets, from land certificates, deposits, money to precious metal gold. Syarief said the assets were handed over by Zarof to Agung’s office.