Febrie Feels Criminalised After Being Named TPPU Suspect

Former Junior Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) Febrie Adriansyah claims he feels criminalised after being named a suspect in an alleged money laundering (TPPU) case. Febrie, when met at the Attorney General’s Office Main Building in Jakarta on Friday, revealed that he had been questioned as a suspect and immediately detained. However, he believes the evidence presented by the examining prosecutors still needs to be further investigated or confirmed. According to Febrie, his designation as a suspect and subsequent detention should have been carried out after the evidence was confirmed and the case had been exposed multiple times. “In my opinion, this is not enough to warrant detention. At the Round Building (Jampidsus), it was never like this,” he said. He admitted to feeling criminalised. Nevertheless, he respects the decision made. “This has become the leadership’s decision, and I am ready to face it, but I feel this is criminalisation,” he stated. Based on observations on Friday, Febrie left the Attorney General’s Main Building in Jakarta at around 11.00 p.m. WIB. He appeared to be wearing a batik shirt and his hands were not handcuffed. On Friday, Febrie underwent questioning as a witness in the alleged money laundering case. This summons for questioning was the second, after he failed to attend the first on Wednesday (22/7) due to health reasons. Previously, a team of investigators at the Attorney General’s Office, referred to as Team 9, issued a new investigation warrant (sprindik) for the alleged TPPU case. The new sprindik, numbered Print-03/F.2/Fd.2/07/2026, was issued on 20 July 2026. Head of the Attorney General’s Office Legal Information Centre, Anang Supriatna, stated that the new sprindik was issued after the office received case files and evidence, including 74 kilogrammes of gold and foreign currency worth hundreds of billions of rupiah, from the National Police. The Attorney General’s Office has also issued three sprindiks following the transfer of cases from the National Police as a form of law enforcement synergy. The first, sprindik number 43, concerns an alleged corruption and TPPU case at PT KNI. The second, sprindik number 44, relates to an alleged corruption case in coal governance at a steam power plant (PLTU) suspected of triggering a blackout. The last, sprindik number 45, concerns an alleged corruption and TPPU case in the handling of the PT Asabri case.