Legislator urges authorities to hunt down all assets from FA corruption case

A member of the House of Representatives Commission III, Rikwanto, has urged law enforcement officials to track down all assets belonging to a suspect identified as FA, a former Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes, in a major corruption and money laundering case. “We suspect there are still many hiding places for these unclear assets, which are believed to be proceeds of this crime, that need to be uncovered,” Rikwanto said during a meeting at the Parliament Complex in Central Jakarta on Saturday. The Golkar Party politician stated that the remaining scattered assets must be pursued so that investigators can determine the flow of FA’s funds. This would enable investigators to detect other parties potentially involved in the corrupt practices. Rikwanto expressed confidence that with the establishment of a working committee, Commission III would be more intensive in supervising and even involved in resolving FA’s corruption case. “Whoever is involved must be thoroughly investigated, and in this meeting, the Golkar Faction fully supports the working committee, whose chairman is our leader, Mr. Habiburokhman,” he said. The Head of the Corruption Eradication Task Force at the National Police Criminal Investigation Agency, Inspector General Totok Suharyanto, confirmed that FA has been named a suspect for alleged corruption and money laundering. Totok stated that FA was named a suspect alongside another individual with the initials DR, a private sector party suspected to be Don Ritto. Investigators have examined 15 witnesses and two experts, and conducted searches at several locations. Totok explained that DR is suspected of money laundering originating from corruption. FA is charged under articles of the Corruption Eradication Law and the Money Laundering Law. The police have agreed with the Attorney General’s Office to transfer the handling of three investigation cases to the AGO for synergy. Previously, a joint team from the police searched a house in the Sentul area of Bogor, West Java, seizing 74 kilograms of gold bars, foreign currency, and rupiah notes worth approximately Rp476 billion, along with documents, mobile phones, and family photographs. The search was part of a joint investigation into three cases: alleged corruption in coal governance that caused power outages, alleged corruption at PT Asabri and PT Jiwasraya for the 2020-2025 period, and alleged money laundering in the settlement of PT CBS’s debt to PT KNI.