Indonesia attorney-general launches graft probe into palm oil fund agency
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THE Indonesian Attorney-General’s Office has launched a corruption investigation into the country’s palm oil fund agency, which oversees the collection and distribution of export levies on the commodity.
The probe will cover a period from 2015 to 2022; 15 people have been questioned regarding the case so far, the AGO said late on Tuesday (Sep 19).
Investigators were looking into alleged unlawful activities linked to the determination of Indonesia’s monthly biodiesel price index.
The palm oil agency, known locally as BPDPKS, is responsible for collecting levies on shipments of the world’s largest palm oil exporting country, and for distributing the proceeds to programmes such as biodiesel subsidies and palm oil replanting.
The biodiesel price index is used to determine how much subsidy a biodiesel producer will get.
BPDPKS said it could not immediately comment on the matter.
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