Febrie Adriansyah spent about 10 hours in an interrogation room at the Attorney General's Office's Round Building on Friday, July 17, 2026, answering 18 questions as a suspect for the first time since prosecutors gave him that status. The session, which began at 9 a.m. local time, covered only one of the three cases against him: alleged corruption and money laundering at PT Asabri between 2020 and 2024.

The former deputy attorney general for special crimes (Jampidsus) entered through the building's basement, accompanied by his new lawyer, Hotman Paris Hutapea. "Yes. The power of attorney was signed officially this morning," Hotman said, confirming the document was signed the same morning as the scheduled examination.

The Rp50 billion from Tan Kian at the center of the questioning

All 18 questions, Hotman said, essentially revolved around one issue: money that flowed from property businessman Tan Kian. "There were 18 questions, but they all essentially came down to one: whether Tan Kian knowingly gave him more than Rp50 billion. The answer is no," he said. Investigators also raised a house in Sentul and a restaurant and money changer that had been searched, but Hotman denied any of them were linked to Febrie.

The marathon session did not end in detention, Hotman said. "He's had his statement taken today since, what time was it? From 9 a.m. until just now. There were 18 questions, all 18 answered well, and the conclusion is there's no detention," he said after leaving the examination building.

Two days before the examination, an investigation order (sprindik) issued by the Attorney General's Office itself for the Krakatau Steel and PLN coal-fired power plant cases listed Febrie as a witness, not a suspect. The office later clarified that the witness status in the new order did not cancel the suspect status the police's anti-corruption task force (Kortas Tipidkor Polri) had already assigned him on July 11, the same day Febrie resigned as deputy attorney general for special crimes. The July 17 examination was what finally confirmed his suspect status directly before Attorney General's Office investigators, though only for the Asabri case; his status in the other two orders, covering Krakatau Steel and the coal plant, has yet to be reaffirmed.

Stage two evidence: 74 kilograms of gold and hundreds of billions in cash

Coinciding with the examination, investigators from Kortas Tipidkor Polri and the Jakarta police's special crimes unit (Ditreskrimsus Polda Metro Jaya) handed over the stage-two case files for two suspects, Febrie Adriansyah and Don Ritto (DR), along with the evidence, to the Attorney General's Office. Anang Supriatna, head of the office's center for information and law, confirmed the handover. "It's true that today's handover includes documents, both printed and electronic evidence, as well as gold and cash in both rupiah and foreign currency, along with suspect DR," he said.

The evidence that changed hands included 74 kilograms of gold bars, cash in rupiah and foreign currency, and electronic and non-electronic documents. Some of the seized cash came from different search locations: about Rp67.2 billion from a restaurant and money changer in Jakarta, plus about Rp476 billion from the house in Sentul, for a confirmed total of roughly Rp543 billion. The stage-two handover completes the transfer of the case from police to prosecutors. "With this handover complete, the rest of the investigation is now entirely the Attorney General's Office's responsibility," said Brig. Gen. Boro Windu, deputy director for corruption crimes at the Jakarta police.

Two other cases still await their turn

Kortas Tipidkor Polri named Febrie a suspect in three investigation orders at once on July 11: the coal case tied to a PLN power plant, PT Krakatau Steel, and PT Asabri. The Attorney General's Office then issued its own three investigation orders under his name on July 15 to continue the investigations: No. 43 for Krakatau Steel, No. 44 for the coal plant, and No. 45 for Asabri.

Of the three, only the Asabri case has reached the suspect-examination stage. Febrie, who once helped handle several major corruption cases during his time as deputy attorney general for special crimes, is now waiting his turn to be questioned on the other two orders, while the public watches for whether the Attorney General's Office will act as decisively as it did when it detained former National Nutrition Agency (BGN) head Dadan Hindayana in the free nutritious meal program (MBG) corruption case.

Several questions remain after this first examination: when Febrie will be called for the Krakatau Steel and coal plant cases, whether his suspect status in those two orders will be formally confirmed, and what comes of the investigation into the Tan Kian funds that dominated Friday's questioning. The examination of the other suspect, Don Ritto, and the tracing of the source of the 74 kilograms of gold and hundreds of billions of rupiah in seized cash are also still underway.