Riva Siahaan Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison in Crude Oil Corruption Case
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - The Director of PT Pertamina Patra Niaga (PPN), Riva Siahaan, has been sentenced to 9 years in prison in a corruption case involving the management of crude oil and refinery products at PT Pertamina Persero.
“The court has found the defendant, Riva Siahaan, guilty and sentences him to 9 years in prison and a fine of Rp 1 billion, or in default, 190 days imprisonment,” said the Chairman of the Panel of Judges, Fajar Kusuma Aji, while reading out the verdict in a hearing at the Jakarta Corruption Court, Thursday (26/2/2026).
This sentence is lighter than the prosecutor’s demand of 14 years.
The judge is convinced that Riva committed a criminal act in the crude oil import project together with the Director of Marketing and Trading of PT Pertamina Patra Niaga, Maya Kusmaya, and the VP of Trading Operations of PT Pertamina Patra Niaga, Edward Corne.
In this case, Riva, Maya, and Edward were not ordered to pay compensation because they were not found to have received or enjoyed the proceeds of corruption.
The actions of the defendants were considered not to support the government’s program to implement a government free from corruption.
Meanwhile, the mitigating factors for the defendants are that they behaved politely during the trial and had no prior convictions, and the defendants still have family responsibilities.
This special treatment involved Edward providing advance notice of the estimated price so that partner companies could adjust their prices and win the tender.
Several of these foreign companies are BP Singapore Pte Ltd and Sinochem International Oil Pte Ltd.
The panel of judges believes that Riva Siahaan and his colleagues did not commit illegal acts in the sale of diesel fuel or biodiesel to industry because they had considered the lowest selling price.
Overall, the financial losses to the state are estimated at 2,732,816,820.63 US dollars or 2.7 billion US dollars and Rp25,439,881,674,368.30 or Rp 25.4 trillion.
Meanwhile, the panel of judges did not agree with the figure of economic losses to the state of Rp 171.9 trillion because this figure is considered not yet explainable.
The Defendants were found to have violated Article 603 in conjunction with Article 20 paragraph c of Law No. 1 of 2023 concerning the Criminal Code in conjunction with Article 18 of Law No. 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended by Law No. 20 of 2001.
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