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Two oil smuggling suspects suspended
Batam city administration and state oil and gas company PT Pertamina have handed down suspensions to employees suspected of involvement in a ring smuggling subsidized fuel from Riau Islands into the international black market
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atam city administration and state oil and gas companyPT Pertamina have handed down suspensions to employees suspected of involvementin a ring smuggling subsidized fuel from Riau Islands into the internationalblack market.
The suspects are Niwen Khairani, a low-ranking civil servant in Batam, Riau Islands, oil transportation businessman Achmad Mahbub, who is Niwen's brother, Yusri, a senior supervisor at Pertamina's Tanjung Uban plant in Bintan, Riau Islands, and Arifin and Dudun, two honor employees of the Indonesian Navy (TNI AL).
'We have imposed a sanction on him [Yusri] in the form of a salary cut. If he is proven guilty in court, he will face instant dismissal,' Pertamina's vice president for corporate communications Ali Mudakir told The Jakarta Post on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Batam city's Employment Agency head M. Sahir said Niwen's office, the Batam City Investment Board, had filed a proposal to fire Niwen. He added that his office would wait for the results of the legal process before terminating her job.
'Currently, her sanction is temporary dismissal,' he said.
The smuggling ring was unmasked after the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) reported that Niwen had logged banking transactions worth Rp 1.3 trillion (US$110.3 million) between 2008 and 2013.
