Former Jampidsus Febrie Adriansyah Questioned as Suspect in ASABRI Case, Not Yet Detained
The Attorney General’s Office (Kejagung) has examined former Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) Febrie Adriansyah in his capacity as a suspect in the corruption and money laundering (TPPU) case related to PT ASABRI. Head of the Attorney General’s Office Legal Information Centre, Anang Supriatna, explained that the examination took place concurrently with the handover of evidence and the detention of another suspect, Don Ritto, at the Kejagung building on Friday (17/7).
“At the same time, investigators from the Attorney General’s Office have summoned Mr FA to be examined as a suspect,” he continued. Anang stated that, based on the Investigation Order issued by the Police’s Corruption Eradication Corps (Kortas), Febrie was examined as a suspect in the ASABRI case. “Based on the Investigation Order from the Police’s Kortas investigators, for one case, namely related to TPPU and ASABRI,” Anang said.
Furthermore, Anang could not confirm whether Febrie Adriansyah would be detained immediately after the examination. He said the Attorney General’s Office investigators would later decide whether Febrie Adriansyah would be detained or not. “He has just been summoned now, that will be the authority of the investigators,” he said.
It is known that the Attorney General’s Office has issued three new Investigation Orders related to the alleged corruption and money laundering case. The issuance of these three new Investigation Orders is a follow-up to the transfer of case files previously handled by the Police’s Corruption Crime Eradication Corps and the Metro Jaya Police’s Special Criminal Investigation Directorate.
The three major case clusters that now ensnare the former Jampidsus include the alleged corruption and money laundering at PT Krakatau Steel, the coal procurement case for the Steam Power Plant (PLTU) for PLN which had resulted in a mass blackout, and the corruption and money laundering case related to financial management at PT ASABRI.
In addition to receiving the physical transfer of evidence and the suspect Don Ritto, the Attorney General’s Office investigators also directly summoned Febrie Adriansyah for examination. Metro Jaya Police Head of Public Relations, Commissioner Budi Hermanto, confirmed that the evidence seized, including gold and foreign and domestic currency, is authentic.
Senior lawyer Hotman Paris Hutapea visited the Attorney General’s Office building on Friday (17/7) morning. The Attorney General’s Office has issued three Investigation Orders in handling three alleged corruption and money laundering cases involving former Jampidsus Febrie Adriansyah. Researcher from the Gadjah Mada University Centre for Anti-Corruption Studies (Pukat), Zaenur Rohman, questioned the Attorney General’s Office’s decision to issue three new Investigation Orders for Febrie Adriansyah.