Top Indonesian prosecutor resigns amid corruption probe

JAKARTA, July 11 (Reuters) - A top Indonesian prosecutor resigned on Saturday after police conducted a series of raids related to corruption investigations this week, including at his ​residence, and seized cash amounting to more than $20 million in multiple ‌currencies and 74 kilograms of gold bars.

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• Febrie Adriansyah resigned from his position as head prosecutor of special crimes in the Attorney General's Office to maintain neutrality amid the police ​investigation, according to a press statement from the AGO released in the ​early hours of Saturday

• Detectives with the national and Jakarta police raided ⁠12 locations and interviewed 15 witnesses this week, during which they seized ​the gold bars and cash worth more than $20 million in currencies including Indonesian ​rupiah, U.S. dollars, Singapore dollars and Saudi riyals, Jakarta police spokesperson Budi Hermanto said in a press conference late on Friday

• Police have not explained their investigation, nor detailed allegations against ​Febrie, because the investigation remained underway, Budi said.

• Police previously said the raids were ​part of their corruption and bribery probe related to the management of state insurers Jiwasraya ‌and ⁠Asabri, as well as problems with coal procurement for electricity that led to recent power blackouts.

• Addressing the press on Friday morning, before his resignation, Febrie denied wrongdoing and said he did not understand why he was investigated over blackouts.

• Febrie ​did not respond to ​a Reuters request ⁠for comment after his resignation.

• Febrie had overseen the AGO's criminal investigations and prosecutions in some high profile cases, including ​the controversial graft cases against startup Gojek founder Nadiem Makarim and ​former trade ⁠minister turned government critic Thomas Lembong, as well as state energy firm Pertamina's illegal fuel imports case.

• Febrie was also involved in President Prabowo Subianto's forestry task force, which has taken ⁠over ​plantations and mines from companies accused of violating ​forest utilisation rules.

• Up until his resignation, he was overseeing a corruption investigation in the National Nutrition Agency, which ​runs Prabowo's free school meals programme.

Reporting by Gayatri Suroyo; Editing by Kim Coghill

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