Police Seal Second Floor of de'Clan Cafe in Cipete After Corruption Raid

A joint police investigation team sealed the second floor of de’Clan Signature cafe in Cipete, South Jakarta, after conducting a series of searches on Wednesday. Greater Jakarta Metropolitan Police spokesperson Senior Commissioner Budi Hermanto stated that the cafe’s second floor functioned as an office. A safe containing documents and cash seized by police was also located on the second floor. The case is being handled as a joint investigation between the Greater Jakarta Metropolitan Police and the National Police’s Corruption Eradication Task Force. “Police are respecting the spaces related solely to the alleged criminal act of corruption. The seizure concerns two rooms. We have returned operational control of the ground floor to management. However, the second floor, which is an office, is subject to a status quo order during the investigation into the alleged corruption,” Budi said at the search location on Wednesday evening. In addition to the cafe’s second floor, Budi mentioned that investigators also sealed Koin Money Changer, which was searched the same day. “Yes, we are also imposing a status quo there,” he said. During the searches, police seized evidence in the form of cash totalling Rp67.2 billion from de’Clan Signature and Koin Money Changer. The seized billions of rupiah consisted of rupiah, US dollar, and Singapore dollar denominations. “The money we seized includes SGD3,130,000 in SGD100 notes, then USD889,965, and cash in rupiah amounting to Rp259,159,000. When converted to rupiah, it is approximately nearly Rp60 billion. This was at the de’Clan location,” said the National Police’s Corruption Eradication Task Force Head, Inspector General Totok Suharyanto, at the search site. “Then at the money changer, there were 71 items of evidence and 16 foreign currencies, totalling around Rp7.2 billion,” he continued. In addition, during the search, police also seized a number of documents and several electronic items for further investigation. Totok previously stated that the search was related to the handling of three cases. He said the cases are being handled jointly with the Greater Jakarta Metropolitan Police through a joint investigation mechanism. “The handling of corruption and money laundering cases in the legal process concerning the PLN BB case, then Asabri for the period 2020 to 2025, and the alleged corruption case in the debt settlement process of PT CBS to PT KNI for the period 2020-2025,” he said. Meanwhile, the Director of Special Criminal Investigation at the Greater Jakarta Metropolitan Police, Senior Commissioner Victor Dean Macbon, stated that the case handling originated from two police reports received. The first report concerns alleged corruption and/or money laundering in the legal handling process by state officials or public officials in the PT Asabri (Persero) and/or Jiwasraya Insurance case that occurred between 2020 and 2025. The second report concerns alleged corruption and/or money laundering in the process of settling the debt or obligations of PT CBS to PT KNI by state officials or public officials that occurred between 2020 and 2025. “The steps we took today involved efforts to fulfil evidence requirements at approximately eight locations where we conducted searches,” he said.