Attorney General's Office Seizes Palm Oil Documents to Hotel Assets in Zarof's Shell Company

The Attorney General’s Office (Kejagung) has revealed the existence of a shadow company allegedly used to disguise the flow of funds from criminal proceeds in the money laundering case (TPPU) implicating Zarof Ricar and Agung Winarno. The company is said to serve as a means to obscure the origins of funds related to a bribery case. “It’s like their paper company, created to deceive the proceeds of crime, layered into the form of a company set up between Zarof and Agung,” said the Head of the Law Information Centre (Kapuspenkum) of Kejagung, Anang Supriatna, in Jakarta on Wednesday (22/4). During the investigation, the team from the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) conducted searches to trace and secure assets belonging to Zarof Ricar. This step was taken to further uncover the alleged money laundering practices. Several pieces of evidence were successfully secured, including five containers containing 1,046 important documents. These documents cover ownership of palm oil plantations, houses or buildings, companies, and hotels. In addition to documents, investigators also seized various other assets in the form of foreign and rupiah currency, deposits, luxury vehicles, and gold bars allegedly linked to TPPU practices through the shadow company. “The shadow company used to hold the proceeds from criminal acts. So it’s the TPPU,” he said. Zarof Ricar and Agung Winarno have been named as suspects in the TPPU case with the underlying predicate offence of bribery involving Zarof. The two are also known to have been involved in a film project titled “Sang Pengadil”. In that project, funding of Rp4.5 billion was divided among three parties: Agung Winarno, Zarof Ricar, and the production house (GR), each contributing Rp1.5 billion. In 2025, Agung is said to have received various documents from Zarof, ranging from land certificates to deposits and cash stored in his office. He is suspected of knowing that the deposit was intended to hide the origins of wealth allegedly derived from corruption in the form of bribery. Zarof Ricar is a former Supreme Court official who has become a convict in a bribery and gratifications case. He was proven to have engaged in a criminal conspiracy regarding the handling of the Ronald Tannur murder case at the cassation level. At the appeal level, Zarof’s sentence was increased to 18 years in prison, after previously being sentenced to 16 years by the Corruption Court at the first instance.