Jakarta, 6 May 2020. Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has officially included SMT, the owner of PT BLEM, in its Wanted List (DPO). On 1 February 2019, KPK declared SMT a suspect in an alleged bribery case related to the processing of Coal Mining Concession Work Agreement (PKP2B) contract termination involving PT Asmin Koalindo Tuhup at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (Kementerian ESDM).
SMT have failed twice to attend the investigation as a suspect. In the first summons sent on 28 February 2020, KPK required SMT to attend the investigation arranged for 2 March 2020, but SMT neither came nor provided any proper or acceptable reason for this absence.
Then, KPK sent a second summons on 2 March 2020, requiring SMT to attend another investigation arranged for 5 March 2020. SMT failed to attend the second time, but he did send a letter explaining that he could not come due to an illness, along with a doctor’s certificate. In the same letter, the suspect promised that he would come on 9 March 2020.
However, on 9 March 2020, SMT sent yet another request to postpone the investigation due to his illness, along with a doctor’s certificate. This time, he said that he needed to have a fourteen-day bed rest.
On 10 March 2020, KPK eventually issued a warrant to arrest SMT as a suspect. The warrant authorized KPK to search for SMT in various places, including two hospitals in Jakarta, SMT’s personal apartment in South Jakarta, and several hotels in South Jakarta. However, SMT’s whereabouts is still unknown.
In view of this recent development, and in accordance with Article 12 of Law Number 19 of 2019 on the Second Amendment to Law Number 30 of 2002, KPK has the authority to call for the assistance of the Police or other related institutions in order to carry out arrest, detainment, search, and seizure in relation to the corruption case under investigation.
Based on this, KPK has included SMT in its Wanted List since 17 April 2020. KPK has also sent a letter to the Chief of the Indonesian National Police—for the attention of the Chief of Criminal Investigation Agency—dated 17 April 2020 regarding the inclusion of SMT in the Wanted List.
SMT is alleged to have given or promised to give Rp5 billion to a civil servant or state official by the name of ENI MAULANI SARAGIH as a member of People’s Representative Council (DPR-RI) 2014–2019 in relation to the processing of Coal Mining Concession Work Agreement (PKP2B) contract termination involving PT AKT at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources.
Based on that allegation, SMT is suspected to have violated Article 5 paragraph (1) point a or Article 13 of Law Number 31 on 1999 as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 on the Eradication of the Criminal Act of Corruption in conjunction with Article 64 paragraph (1) of the Indonesian Criminal Code (KUHP).
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