Ridlatama grant case settled

The South Jakarta District Court has on Wednesday November 28 decided to cancel share takeover via grant deed at PT Ridlatama Trade Powerindo by PT Technocoal Utama Prima and PT Indonesia Coal Development.

"The cancelled grant deeds were Grant Deed #12 and Grant Deed #13 dated November 2007, which attempted to takeover 75 percent or 7,500 shares of Ridlatama. According to our judgement, the share takeover was against the law," head judge Ari Jiwantara said as quoted by Bisnis Indonesia.

The decision, stated within Decision Letter No.605/ Pdt.G/2011 /PN.Jkt.Sel, basically explained that the deal, mentioned within an investor agreement made by both the accused companies did not meet all the criteria of a legitimate deal as stated within Article 1320 of KUH Perdata (Civil Affair Law).

The decision was made based on a lawsuit filed by majority shareholders of Ridlatama, namely Ani Setiawan and Florita, who claimed to control all Ridlatama shares, against both Technocoal and Indonesia Coal.(*)