JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – The status of Riefan Avrian, the eldest son of Syarief Hasan, Minister of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises and Daily Executive Chairman of President SBY’s Democratic Party, is remain a witness in a graft scandal related to the videotrons procurement project at his father’s ministry.
Head of the Jakarta High Prosecutor office Adi Toegarisman confirmed on Thursday (Jan. 30) Riefan’s status in the case. But Adi said his office has not planned yet to summon Riefan.
Riefan is known as the owner of PT Imaje Media Jakarta, a company that won the tender of the procurement project of two videotrons at the Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises in 2012. The project was worth Rp23.4 billion.
As reported earlier, the Prosecutor office has named three suspects in the case. They are Hasnawi Bachtiar (an official at the Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises), Hendra Saputra (an office boy but his name placed as Director of PT Imaje Media Jakarta), and Kasiyadi (a member of the tender committee). Hendra was arrested by the team from the prosecutor office on Oct. 30, 2013 in Samarinda, East Kalimantan.
Previously, Minister Syarief Hasan denied his involvement on the scandal. The minister stated he didn’t know anything about the tender, both the process and the winner. (haryantos@yosefardi.biz)