JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – The Jakarta High Prosecutor office has named 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, as suspect 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 revealed on Friday (May 16) about Riefan’s current status in the case and noted that his office has issued a letter ordering fully investigation over Riefan.
As reported earlier, Riefan has testified as witness in the trial of videotron graft case held on Wednesday (May 14).
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.
Previously, the Prosecutor office had 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.
Minister Syarief Hasan, meanwhile, had denied he was involved in the scandal.(haryantos@yosefardi.biz)