Not Only the Office, an Ombudsman Commissioner's Home Also Searched by the Attorney General's Office! It Turns Out to Be Related to This Case

The Ombudsman of the Republic of Indonesia building has been searched by the Attorney General’s Office. The search is related to allegations of obstructing investigation and prosecution in a cooking oil case involving three corporations.

The search was conducted by investigators at the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus). This was confirmed by the Head of the Attorney General’s Legal Information Centre, Anang Supriatna.

“It is true there was a search,” he said on Monday, 9 March 2026.

Not only was the Ombudsman building searched, but investigators also searched the residence of one of the Ombudsman commissioners. However, Anang did not provide details about the commissioner in question.

Anang stated that the case was related to convicted Marcella Santoso and three corporations: Wilmar Group, Permata Hijau Group, and Musim Mas Group.

Additionally, the case is also connected to civil lawsuits filed by these three corporations to the State Administrative Court. The Ombudsman is alleged to have provided recommendations to strengthen these lawsuits.

Marcella Santoso was found guilty of providing bribes to influence a court decision acquitting a case of corruption involving the provision of export facilities for crude palm oil (CPO) and committing money laundering (TPPU) in 2025.

She was proven to have given bribes to the judge handling the CPO case amounting to 4 million US dollars (approximately 60 billion rupiah) and committed money laundering worth 2 million US dollars in the case, with both offences carried out jointly with lawyer Ariyanto.

In the bribery case, the two of them, together with Wahyu Gunawan, as deputy registrar for civil cases at the North Jakarta District Court, acted as intermediaries for the Wilmar team in providing bribes to suspect Muhammad Arif Nuryanta, who was the Deputy Head of the Central Jakarta District Court at the time.

The bribes were subsequently distributed by Arif to three judges who served as the panel of judges in the CPO case—Djuyamto, Agam Syarif Baharuddin, and Ali Muhtarom—with the aim of facilitating the issuance of an acquittal decision for the three corporations.