Dion Renato Sugiarto Charged With Bribery At The Directorate General Of Railways Rp27.9 Billion For The 3 Provincial Railway Project

Director of PT Istana Putra Agung Dion Renato Sugiarto, a defendant in bribery to officials of the Directorate General of Railways at the Ministry of Transportation, Monday (3/7/2023). ANTARA/IC Senjaya

JAKARTA - Director of PT Istana Putra Agung Dion Renato Sugiarto was charged with committing bribes of Rp27.9 billion to officials of the Directorate General (Ditjen) of Railways of the Ministry of Transportation (Kemenkeu).

The bribe was given so that Dion obtained construction work and improved railway lines in three provinces.

Public prosecutor (JPU) Ramaditya Virgiyansyah in a trial at the Semarang Corruption Court, Monday, July 3, said that the railway line projects carried out by construction service companies in the railway sector were located in Central Java, West Java, and South Sulawesi.

Prosecutors outlined that for projects in Central Java, bribes were given to Bernard Hasibuan as the official commitment maker and Head of the Class I Railway Engineering Center for the Central Java Region Putu Sumarjaya in 2023, totaling Rp18.9 billion.

Of this amount, according to him, Rp. 300 million of which is a bribe intended as THR for officials in the agency in charge of the railway infrastructure.

For projects in West Java, bribes totaling Rp2 billion were given to the commitment-making official Shynto Hutabarat.

Of this amount, Rp1.75 billion of which is intended as THR for officials at the Directorate General of Railways.

As for the project in South Sulawesi, the bribe given by the defendant Dion totaled Rp7 billion which was handed over to the official commitment maker Ahmad Affandi.

The bribe money for the Makassar to Pare-Pare railway line construction project is IDR 150 million for THR.

"The defendant's actions violated Article 5 paragraph (1) or Article 13 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001," he said in a trial chaired by Chief Judge Gatot Sarwadi.

On this charge, the defendant Dion Renato Sugiarto stated that he would not file an exception so that the trial was continued with evidence.