Former Deputy AG allegedly received $40 million from businessman

A pretrial hearing has revealed allegations that Febrie Adriansyah, the former Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes, received Rp40 billion (approximately $2.7 million USD) from businessman Tan Kian. The alleged payment is linked to the ongoing corruption investigations into state-owned companies PT ASABRI and PT Jiwasraya.

During the hearing at the South Jakarta District Court, Presiding Judge Richard Edwin Basoeki noted that investigators had gathered testimony from witnesses about communications between Adriansyah and parties involved in the corruption cases. According to the judge, Tan Kian provided testimony about handing over Rp40 billion in Singapore dollars to Adriansyah.

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The testimony regarding the request for a sum of money, the testimony regarding the handover of Singapore Dollar currency equivalent to approximately Rp40 billion, as well as documents and transaction and communication data that according to the investigators are consistent.

Judge Basoeki stated that this witness testimony, along with supporting documents and communication records, could be considered sufficient preliminary evidence, meeting the legal requirement of at least two pieces of evidence. However, the judge emphasized that the pretrial hearing's scope was limited to assessing the legality of the search, seizure, and suspect designation of Adriansyah, not to determine the veracity of the bribery allegations.

The judge also addressed Adriansyah's argument that no investigation occurred because he was never summoned as a witness or suspect. Basoeki clarified that Indonesian law does not require a suspect to be previously examined for an investigation to be considered valid. Furthermore, the judge found no grounds to invalidate the search warrant, despite a discrepancy in the document numbers, as it did not affect the scope or location of the search.

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The investigation within Law Number 8 of 1981 concerning the Criminal Procedure Code does not require that a person who later becomes a suspect must first be examined as a condition for the existence of an investigation.