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Police to question condensate suspect in S'pore
The National Policeâs Criminal Investigation Directorate (Bareskrim) has said their investigators will travel to Singapore to question Honggo Wendratno, a suspect in the alleged corruption and money laundering case centering on the selling of the stateâs portion of condensate, which involved the Upstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Special Task Force (SKKMigas) and refiner PT Trans Pacific Petrochemical Indotama (TPPI)
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he National Police's Criminal Investigation Directorate (Bareskrim) has said their investigators will travel to Singapore to question Honggo Wendratno, a suspect in the alleged corruption and money laundering case centering on the selling of the state's portion of condensate, which involved the Upstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Special Task Force (SKKMigas) and refiner PT Trans Pacific Petrochemical Indotama (TPPI).
'We will question HW [Honggo Wendratno] on Friday,' Bareskrim's director for special and economic crimes, Brig. Gen. Victor E. Simanjuntak, said at the National Police headquarters in Jakarta as quoted by Antara on Wednesday.
On July 9, police investigators questioned Honggo in his capacity as a witness in the condensate case in Singapore.
Apart from Honggo, the police have named two others, Djoko Harsono and Raden Priyono, as suspects in the case.
Raden is former head of the now-defunct upstream oil and gas regulator BP Migas while Djoko was his deputy for economics and marketing. Meanwhile, Honggo is one of TPPI's founders.
TPPI was reported to have violated the policy of then Vice President Jusuf Kalla, at that time a member of Susilo Bambang Yodhoyono's government. Based on the Vice President's policy, TPPI was appointed as the implementing agency to sell the state's portion of condensate. According to one of the requirements it had to fulfill, the refiner had to sell the processed condensate to state oil and gas company Pertamina. In fact, TPPI sold the condensate to other parties, both local and foreign.
The case began with BP Migas' policy of directly appointing the TPPI to handle the selling of condensate for the period of 2009-2011 in October 2008. The contract agreement between BP Migas and TPPI was finalized in March 2009 while in fact, the latter had received condensate from the upstream oil and gas regulator since January 2009.
The three suspects were accused of violating Law No.31/1999 in reference to Law No.20/ 2001 on corruption and Law No.15/2002 in reference to Law No.25/2003 on money laundering, with a maximum sentence of 20 years' imprisonment. (ebf)
