The Bakrie Group, the shareholder of London-listed Bumi Plc., has said that documents used as the basis of an investigation into the company’s Indonesian units PT Bumi Resources and PT Berau Coal Energy, were illegally obtained.



“We can confirm that the documents used as the basis of the Macfarlanes’ preliminary report were, in some cases, stolen and, in others, illegally hacked. Some of these documents appear then to have been ‘doctored’ to give a purposely misleading impression of a number of business transactions at Bumi Resources,” Bakrie Group senior vice president Christopher Fong said on Monday.



Macfarlanes LLP is a UK-based law firm, which was appointed to investigate alleged financial irregularities in Bumi Resources and Berau. The investigation commenced last September after receiving information from a whistle-blower.



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