Ministry of Trade Involved in Alleged Corruption Case of Sugar Imports, This is Zulkifli Hasan's Response

"Ministry of Trade Involved in Alleged Corruption Case of Sugar Import, Here's Zulkifli Hasan's Response"

Ministry of Trade Involved in Alleged Corruption Case of Sugar Imports, This is Zulkifli Hasan's Response

Dream - Minister of Trade Zulkifli Hasan supports the Attorney General's Office to investigate alleged corruption cases in his ministry from 2015 to 2023. He handed over the investigation of the alleged corruption to law enforcement.

"I have only been the Minister of Trade for a little over a year. This ministry has faced storms, and until now, I fully support law enforcement to resolve the cases."

The text translation from 'Bahasa' to 'English' while preserving the HTML tags is: "words from Minister of Trade Zulhas quoted from Liputan6.com, Thursday, October 5, 2023."

Zulhas said, Kemendag showed its support in the resolution of legal processes. He hopes that his ministry can perform better in the future.

According to him, the Ministry of Trade has shown increasingly better performance. This can be seen from the success of the Ministry of Trade in resolving a number of issues such as cooking oil and the stability of prices for basic necessities (bapok).

"Currently, the Ministry of Trade has successfully resolved several issues. In terms of cooking oil, we have addressed the issues of price and distribution. The distribution and supply of staple foods have also been successfully addressed. This is evident during Eid, Christmas, and New Year in 2023, where the conditions were safe and inflation was below four percent,"

"revealed Minister of Trade Zulkifli Hasan."

The following is the translation of the given 'Bahasa' text to 'English' while preserving any HTML tags: "Director of Investigation of the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes, Kuntadi, stated that the act of corruption occurred in order to fulfill the national sugar stock and stabilize the national sugar price of the Ministry of Trade."

However, in the process, it is alleged to have been done illegally by issuing approval for the import of raw crystal sugar intended to be processed into white crystal sugar to irresponsible parties. The investigators team from the Attorney General's Office (Kejagung) conducted a search at the Ministry of Trade (Kemendag) office on Tuesday, October 3, 2023.

Regarding the losses, Kuntadi has not been able to mention the amount. "We have not calculated the losses yet, it is still in process, but please wait. What we have found is only the criminal act," said Kuntadi.

Meanwhile, regarding the examination of the Minister of Trade to the former Minister of Trade, Kuntadi said, the summoning will be done according to the needs of the investigation. "This is a new process, as for who will be summoned, we will see the urgency, let's just wait and see, I can't convey it here yet," explained Kuntadi.

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