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The AGO's star has been brightening as the KPK's has been waning over recent years and especially in recent months with a handful of high-profile graft cases, leaving analysts wondering about the political and legal machinations behind these developments.
Customers are up in arms over the massive corruption scandal implicating Pertamina, with some turning to more expensive but quality-assured rival brands and others deliberately purchasing potentially doctored nonsubsidized fuel to ensure that taxpayer-funded subsidies reached their intended recipients.
The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) is investigating the possible involvement of oil tycoon Riza Chalid in a graft scheme involving fuel imports at subsidiaries of state-owned oil and gas giant Pertamina that allegedly cost the country nearly US$12 billion.
The complainants argue in their report to the Bangka Belitung Police that the expert, forestry professor Bambang Hero Saharjo of the Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), lacks the competency to estimate state losses from a corruption case.
Both the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and the Attorney General's Office (AGO) dismiss concerns about potential overlapping authorities in investigating corruption cases with the National Police's newly formed Corruption Eradication Corps.
