South Sulawesi Prosecutor's Office Names 2 Corruption Suspects Pegadaian Rantepao

MAKASSAR - Investigators for Special Crimes at the South Sulawesi High Prosecutor's Office have named two suspects with the initials HM and WAN for cases of alleged fictitious credit corruption and embezzlement of claims for micro insurance at PT Pegadaian Rantepao Branch, Tana Toraja Regency.

"After examining from the beginning as a witness, investigators raised the status of the two of them as suspects," said Head of the Information and Law Section of the South Sulawesi Attorney General's Office, Soertami, as reported by ANTARA, Thursday, August 16.

The alleged corruption case at the Office of PT Pegadaian Rantepao Branch was carried out from 2021-2022, the suspect HM, who is a woman who serves as Head of the Micro Business Unit and female also as a marketing worker for the local Pegadaian office.

"The Attorney General's Office investigators have detained the suspect HM based on the Detention Order of the Head of the South Sulawesi Prosecutor's Office for 20 days from August 16 to September 14, 2023 at the Makassar Class IA Detention Center," said Soertami.

Meanwhile, the suspect Wan is currently undergoing detention at the Class IIB Matale Detention Center, Tana Toraja Regency because there are other cases currently underway.

The determination of the two suspects was also carried out after investigators obtained two sufficient pieces of evidence, related to the alleged corruption in the distribution of credit from PT Pegadaian Rantepao Branch in 2021-2022.

From the actions of these two suspects who violated the law on allegations of corruption in lending which has the potential to cause state losses of more than Rp. 1.2 billion. The mode used by both is fictitious credit without guaranteeing a BPKB letter.

Then, fictitious credit for guaranteeing archival BPKB letters, non-procedural credit for personal use, handling problematic credit or withdrawing vehicles, embezzling micro insurance claims and detaining customer installments for personal use.

The suspect is suspected of being primer and subsidiary to Article 2 paragraph (1) and Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning amendments to Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code, in conjunction with Article 64 of the Criminal Code.