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The
Attorney General’s Office has named seven suspects in a graft case involving a
Chevron Pacific Indonesia environmental project believed to have caused the
state $270 million in losses.
“The seven
suspects consist of five people from the company [Chevron] and two others,” the
deputy attorney general for special crimes, Andhi Nirwanto, said in Jakarta on
Friday.
He said the
case was centered on Chevron’s bioremediation project, aimed at normalizing the
condition of soil contaminated by waste from oil drilling activities.
The
project, which took place in Sumatra and lasted from 2003 to 2011, cost $270
million.
“We’ve
found traces of corruption there upon investigation. We’ll probe further into
the case starting this week,” Andhi added.
He said
Chevron hired Green Planet Indonesia and Sumi Gita Jaya to carry out the
bioremediation project.
The two
companies, however, are allegedly fictitious, and so is the project. The
companies did not meet technical requirements or obtain any certificates to
render them capable of waste processing.
Andhi did
not disclose the seven suspects’ names, but added that the AGO had questioned
Sampe L. Purba and Media Apriadi, two officials from BPMigas, the state
regulator that oversees oil and gas exploration and production, as witnesses in
the case.
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