Kejari Samarinda Tahan 2 Tersangka Korupsi BPHTB

The Samarinda Penitentiary and Correctional Officers (Polsuspas) took two suspects A and MS to Kajari Samarinda, Wednesday (17/5/2023). ANTARA/HO-Kejari Samarinda

SAMARINDA - The Samarinda District Attorney's Office, East Kalimantan, has detained two suspects with the initials A and MS for alleged corruption in the payment of Customs for Land and Building Rights (BPHTB) in the Samarinda City Government.

"The two suspects were detained at the prosecution level for 20 days at the Samarinda Class II State Detention Center (Rutan) from May 17 to June 5, 2023," said Samarinda District Attorney, Firmansyah Subhan, quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, May 17.

Accompanied by the Head of Intelligence Erfandy Rusdy Quiliem, Kajari continued that the detention was carried out by the Public Prosecutor for Special Crimes at the Samarinda Kejari. The two suspects are employees of the Office of the Land Dedek Yuliona Land Dekta Official (PPAT).

Previously, investigators from the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Samarinda City Police handed over the second phase of the case on behalf of suspects A and MS along with evidence to the Samarinda Kejari.

The delegation of two suspects and evidence was carried out after the public prosecutor declared the case file complete or P-21 on Monday, April 3, 2023.

"Furthermore, the public prosecutor will prepare the letter and administration of the prosecution, then transfer this case to the Corruption Court at the Samarinda District Court for questioning and trial at the trial stage," he said.

Kajari explained that the detention of the two suspects was carried out to speed up the process of prosecuting the case, including based on the provisions of Article 21 Paragraph (1) and Paragraph (4) of the Criminal Procedure Code, because it was feared that both of them would run away, damage, and destroy evidence or repeat criminal acts.

In this case, the two suspects were charged with committing a criminal act of corruption in the payment of BPHTB at the Samarinda City Government which was carried out by the PPATDedek Yuliona Office from 2015 to 2018 which was not deposited into the regional treasury.

This act resulted in state financial losses of Rp1.08 billion based on the audit results of the calculation of state financial losses carried out by the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP) of East Kalimantan Province.