The Indonesian Attorney General’s Office (AGO) has launched a corruption investigation into the country’s palm oil fund agency, which oversees the collection and distribution of export taxes on the commodity, Reuters wrote.
To date, 15 people had been questioned regarding the case, which would cover the 2015-2022 period, the AGO said in a statement on 19 September.
Investigators were looking into alleged unlawful activities linked to the setting of Indonesia's monthly biodiesel price index, the 20 September report said.
Known locally as BPDPKS, the palm oil agency 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 the level of subsidy biodiesel producers are allocated.
At the time of the report, the BPDPKS said it could not immediately comment on the matter.
