Three de'Clan Cafe Employees in Cipete Taken by Police Following Raid

Investigators from the Metro Jaya Regional Police together with the National Police’s Corruption Eradication Task Force (Kortastipidkor) took three witnesses who are employees of the de’Clan Signature cafe in Cipete, South Jakarta, to police headquarters for questioning on Wednesday evening. Since midday, joint investigators had been raiding the two business premises in connection with corruption, money laundering, and bribery cases. “There are three witnesses taken, employees,” said Kortastipidkor Polri Chief Inspector General Totok Suharyanto to reporters at the raid location. CNNIndonesia.com observed the three suspected witnesses being transported in a Metro Jaya Police Special Criminal Investigation Directorate vehicle along with evidence seized at the scene. The witnesses and evidence were then taken to Metro Jaya Police headquarters under escort from Mobile Brigade personnel. During the raid, 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 Totok. “Then at the Money Changer, there were 71 items of evidence, then 16 foreign currencies, totalling around Rp7.2 billion,” he continued. In addition, police also seized a number of documents and several electronic items during the raid for further investigation. Totok previously stated that the raid was related to the handling of three cases. He said the case handling was conducted jointly with Metro Jaya Police under a joint investigation mechanism. “The handling of corruption and money laundering cases in the legal process concerning the PLN BB case, then Asabri from 2020 to 2025, and the alleged corruption case in the debt settlement process of PT CBS to PT KNI from 2020-2025,” he said. Meanwhile, Metro Jaya Police Special Criminal Investigation Director Senior Commissioner Victor Dean Macbon conveyed 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 state administrators in the PT Asabri (Persero) and/or Jiwasraya Insurance case that occurred between 2020 and 2025. The second report relates to alleged corruption and/or money laundering in the debt settlement or obligations of PT CBS to PT KNI by state officials or state administrators that occurred between 2020 and 2025. “The steps we took today, we made efforts to fulfil evidence at approximately eight locations where we conducted searches,” he said.