Fourth Suspect Named in Corruption Case
VIVAnews – After weeks of hinting that there was a fourth suspect from the private entity's side in the Department of Justice and Human Rights corruption case, the Attorney General's Office (AGO) officially declared the President Director of PT Sarana Rekatama Dinamika (SRD), Yohanes Waworuntu, as a suspect in the Legal Entity Administration System (Sisminbakum) case.
Special Crimes Solicitor, Marwan Effendy, said that he has signed the letter, confirming the suspect from the private entity, today, Nov. 26.
“I've signed a suspect under the name of Yohanes Waworuntu. He took money and also signed the cooperation agreement,” said Marwan.
When asked whether there would be other suspects he said, “If Yohanes was 'Ali', and there's 'Baba', then 'Baba' will get it too.”
The corruption case involves the access fees to the online Legal Entities Administration System at www.sisminbakum.com.The system is a project under the Department of Justice and Human Rights, concerning the application of the internet to establish and modify legal entities. The system is used for legalizing company deeds, approving modified statutes of limited liability companies, and fulfilling other requests that are within the ambits of the General Directorate of Common Law Administration's Decree.
The AGO found out that not all the access fees went into the state treasury, instead it went into the account of PT Sarana at Danamon Bank’s Sudirman branch.
PT Sarana is the private partner of the system. According to a financial staff of the General Directorate of the Common Law Administration (AHU), Erwanto, “From the start it was 90 percent for SRD (PT Sarana Rekatama Dinamika, ed.) and 10 percent for Depkumham (Department of Justice and Human Rights, ed.).” Erwanto then continued to say that from the 10 percent, 60 percent was given to the General Directorate and 40 percent to the Department's Cooperative.
The access fees details are: Rp 350,000 for company name blocking, Rp 1 million for establishing and modifying legal entities, Rp 250,000 for company profile checking, and Rp 500,000 for legal counseling. Meanwhile Non-Tax State Revenue (PNBP) of Rp 200,000 was deposited into the Bank Negara Indonesia’s (BNI) Tebet branch under the account of General Directorate of AHU, Department of Justice and Human Rights.
The finalization of the prices and how they are divided were written in cooperation agreement no. 135/K/UM/KPPDK/XI/2000 and no. 021/Dir/YW-SRD/XI/2000 that was signed by Yohanes Waworuntu and the Department of Justice and Human Rights's Workers Protection Cooperative, Ali Imran Djanah.
The AGO had previously determined 3 suspects from the Department: former General Directors of the (AHU), Romli Atmasasmita and Zulkarnain Yunus, and the most recent General Director, Syamsudin Manan Sinaga, currently non-active.
Yohanes Waworuntu is the fourth and latest person to be named suspect in this case that is estimated to have cost the state Rp 400 billion (approx. US$32.8 million).
VIVAnews writers Ita Lismawati F. Malau, Fadila Fikriani Armadita, Archie Ardian and Ramona Sofianne Dewi contributed to this writing.
