Beef Import Quota Bribe Case: The Incomplete Records

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Kamis, 1 Januari 1970 07:00 WIB

Constitutional Court Judge Patrialis Akbar, center, is escorted by security officers after his sentencing hearing at the Corruption Court in Jakarta, Sept. 4, 2017. AP

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Corruption Court judges sentenced Basuki Hariman, a beef importer, to seven years imprisonment last month. He was found guilty of bribing Constitutional Court Chief Justice Patrialis Akbar by deciding in favor of his lawsuit against the regulation on the freezing of the beef import quota. Financial records allegedly kept by Impexindo Pratama- a company owned by Basuki- revealed the names of many people who had received funds from that company. Those records were confiscated by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) during a search of Basuki Hariman's office last January.

In charges filed against Patrialis, investigators attempted to go over those records with Fenny Ng, General Manager of Impexindo Pratama. Many names had been written down in Fenny's handwriting, from police officers to Customs, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of State Bureaucratic Reform officials. She admitted to some, while for others she said she "doesn't know." A few pages of those transactions were missing, and the transactions dates were not in chronological order.

A red bank book of Impexindo Pratama

» Expenditure records from 2015-2016

» Amount: Rp4.337 billion and US$206,174

A black bank book of Aman Abadi Nusa Makmur

» Expenditure records from 2010-2013

» Amount: US$1,256,000

“I want to live a peaceful life.”

—Basuki Hariman, (a beef importer) at the Class I-A Correctional Facility in Tangerang, Banten, on Friday last week

"If it is true that the name of the minister is there, it means someone used the minister's name for their personal interest."

- Suswono, Minister of Agriculture, 2009-2014

Ministry of Agriculture

2011:

February 11

» Donation to Ministry of Agriculture US$1,000

2012:

» January 30th For the Minister (MBM) US$250,000

» March 6th Minister (MBM) US$205,000

» April 13th Minister (MBM) US$100,000

» April 21th Minister (MBM) US$97,500

» May 8th Minister MBM US$40,000

» June 13th Minister MBM US$15,000

*) MBM is meat bone meal, processed animal feed from powdered bone and meat.

The authority to grant authorization for the importation of MBM comes from the Ministry of Agriculture. During that period, the Minister of Agriculture was Suswono, a politician from the Justice and Prosperity Party (PKS).

"It is not true that funds were given from Basuki Hariman to me or the Menpan (Minister of Administrative Reform)."

- Fariza Irawady, last week

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