After months into the shortage of cooking oil in the market, earlier this year the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) announced that they had commenced investigation into allegations of corruption at the root of the problem. By May, the AGO had named several suspects, then the President decided to dismiss the Minister of Trade, M Lutfi, after serving for less than two years. Lutfi was examined by the AGO. In the midst of all that, the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU), which has been working in silence all this time, announced that it had escalate the investigation on alleged cartel-like practices in the cooking oil industry into the next phase and officially will examined 27 companies in Assembly hearings. To subscribe please click here
