JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – The Jakarta High Prosecutor office has detained graft suspect Riefan Avrian, the eldest son of Syarief Hasan (Minister of Cooperatives and Small-Medium Enterprises and Daily Executive Chairman of President SBY’s Democratic Party), in a graft scandal related to the Rp23.4 billion videotron procurement project at his father’s ministry.
Head of the Jakarta High Prosecutor office Adi Toegarisman said Riefan has been detained since Thursday (June 19), for the next 20 days.
As reported earlier, Riefan has been named as one of suspects on May 16. Three other suspects in the case are Hasnawi Bachtiar (an official at the Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises), Hendra Saputra (office boy but his name was placed as Director of PT Imaje Media Jakarta), and Kasiyadi (member of the tender committee).
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. (haryantos@yosefardi.biz)