Former Director of PT PIS Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison for Corruption in Oil Case

Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Director of PT Pertamina International Shipping (PIS) for the period 2022–2024, Yoki Firnandi, has been sentenced to nine years in prison for being proven to have committed corruption related to the management of crude oil and refinery products for the period 2018-2023.

Chief Justice Fajar Kusuma Aji stated that Yoki was proven guilty of participating in a corrupt act in the case, which caused state financial losses amounting to IDR 9.42 trillion.

“In addition to imprisonment, the defendant was also sentenced to a fine of IDR 1 billion or 190 days of imprisonment,” said the Chief Justice during the reading of the verdict at the Corruption Court at the Central Jakarta District Court, Friday early morning.

In the same trial, verdicts were also read for the Vice President of Feedstock Management at PT Kilang Pertamina Internasional (KPI) for 2023–2024, Agus Purwono, and the Director of Feedstock and Product Optimization at PT KPI for the period 2022–2025, Sani Dinar Saifudin.

Agus was sentenced to 10 years in prison, while Sani was sentenced to 9 years in prison. Both were also sentenced to a fine of IDR 1 billion or 190 days of imprisonment.

For their actions, the three defendants were found guilty of violating Article 2 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption, as amended and supplemented by Law Number 20 of 2001 in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code.

In the procurement of ship leases, Kerry allegedly asked Yoki to confirm the certainty of ship lease revenue from PT PIS as a source of funding for installment payments for investment credit loans for ship purchases by Bank Mandiri.

Then, Kerry and Dimas, together with Sani and Agus, arranged for the lease of Suezmax ships owned by PT JMN by adding the phrase “domestic transportation” to the letter of response from PT KPI to PT PIS with the intention that in the procurement process, foreign ships could not participate in the tender.

This step was allegedly intended to ensure that only Suezmax ships owned by PT JMN could be leased by PT PIS.

Meanwhile, in the lease of fuel oil storage tanks (TBBM), Kerry and Riza, through Gading as Director of PT Tangki Merak, conveyed an offer for cooperation in leasing the Merak BBM Terminal to Hanung Budya Yuktyanta as Director of Marketing and Trading at PT Pertamina (Persero), even though they knew that the Merak BBM Terminal was not owned by PT Tangki Merak, but by PT Oiltanking Merak.

Then, Kerry also gave Gading the approval to sign a Memorandum of Understanding for Cooperation on the Provision, Storage, and Delivery of BBM with Hanung, even though he knew that the Merak BBM Terminal was not yet owned by PT Tangki Merak.