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Indonesian Police Search Contractor's Office in $43 Million Sugar Factory Corruption Case
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Indonesian Police Search Contractor's Office in $43 Million Sugar Factory Corruption Case

From CNN Indonesia · () Indonesian

Translated from Indonesian, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

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  • Indonesian police searched the Surabaya office of a contractor linked to alleged corruption in a sugar factory modernization project.
  • The case involves the Assembagoes Sugar Factory modernization, with state losses estimated at Rp645 billion.
  • Investigators are gathering evidence to identify potential suspects in the six-year project.

Indonesian police on Tuesday searched the Surabaya office of PT Multinas Tjahja Sejahtera, a contractor implicated in a corruption case involving the modernization of the Assembagoes Sugar Factory in Situbondo.

We deliberately came to Surabaya to carry out a search related to the alleged corruption case of EPCC regarding the construction of the Assembagoes Sugar Factory.

— Kombes Pol Ahmad Yusuf AfandiHead of operations for the National Police's Anti-Corruption Task Force, explaining the purpose of the search.

The search by the National Police's Anti-Corruption Task Force aims to gather evidence related to the alleged corruption, which has resulted in state losses estimated at Rp645 billion. PT Multinas Tjahja Sejahtera was the winning bidder for the Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Commissioning (EPCC) project, which spanned from 2016 to 2022.

The financial losses were calculated by the BPK, in this case the state financial losses are Rp645 billion.

— Kombes Pol Ahmad Yusuf AfandiConfirming the estimated state losses in the corruption case.

Kombes Pol Ahmad Yusuf Afandi, head of operations for the task force, stated that the search was conducted to find and secure documents and evidence pertinent to the investigation. He confirmed that the financial losses were calculated by the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK). "We deliberately came to Surabaya to carry out a search related to the alleged corruption case of EPCC regarding the construction of the Assembagoes Sugar Factory," Afandi said.

The search was conducted to find and secure documents and evidence related to the investigation of alleged corruption in the EPCC project for the modernization of PG Assembagoes.

— Kombes Pol Ahmad Yusuf AfandiDescribing the objective of the search operation.

Investigators seized several documents during the search at the Ruko Klampis Megah complex. These documents are expected to shed light on the project's implementation. While the investigation is ongoing and police are focusing on strengthening the evidence, no suspects have been named yet. The task force also reported conducting parallel searches in Gresik related to similar cases.

From the search, several documents suspected to be related to the modernization project of PG Assembagoes were found and will subsequently be investigated by investigators.

— Kombes Pol Ahmad Yusuf AfandiReporting on the findings of the search.
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Originally published by CNN Indonesia in Indonesian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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