Overview
- Police said they raided at least 12 locations on July 8 and 9 and have interviewed 15 witnesses in a widening corruption and bribery probe.
- Officers reported seizing 74 kilograms of gold bars and more than $20 million in multiple currencies during the operations.
- Febrie Adriansyah denied wrongdoing when questioned and then resigned from his post as head prosecutor for special crimes; the Attorney General’s Office accepted the resignation on July 11.
- Authorities link the raids to long-running investigations into fraud at state insurers Jiwasraya and Asabri and to suspected collusion in coal procurement that has been blamed for recent power outages, but no formal charges have been filed yet.
- Febrie had led high-profile graft probes and cases that touched presidential programs, a fact that raises political sensitivity and could affect the pace and public perception of the ongoing investigations.