Producer of Film 'The Judge' Named Suspect in Zarof Ricar's Money Laundering Case

The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) has named film producer Agung Winarno (AW) as a suspect in a money laundering offence (TPPU) in the bribery and gratifications case involving former Supreme Court official Zarof Ricar.

Director of Investigation for the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes, Syarief Sulaeman Nahdi, stated that the two knew each other and were involved in a joint project.

Agung and Zarof served as producers for the film titled Sang Pengadil. The film tells the story of a young judge’s struggle against the shadows of corruption and past trauma due to the tragic death of his father, who was also a judge.

“The suspect AW, together with the convict Zarof Ricar, had a project, and during that project, they were already in intensive communication,” he said during a press conference on Thursday (16/4).

In 2025, he said, Zarof then contacted Agung to entrust several of his assets, ranging from land certificates, deposits, money, to precious metal gold. Syarief stated that the assets were handed over by Zarof to Agung’s office.

“AW was contacted by Zarof Ricar to entrust documents in the form of land certificates, deposits or money, and so on, and they were delivered to AW’s office,” he said.

In this case, he mentioned that Agung had known from the beginning that the entrustment of the assets was done by Zarof to hide or disguise the origin of their acquisition.

“From the beginning, he already suspected that the assets came from a corruption offence in the form of bribes committed by Mr Zarof Ricar,” he explained.

Furthermore, Syarief said that from the search results at Agung’s office, investigators also seized documents in the form of proof of land ownership, deposits, gold, and cash belonging to Zarof Ricar.