P21 Immediately File, Police Detain 2 Suspects Of Corruption At The Mataram NTB Poltekkes

AD (third right) and ZF (second right), two suspects in the alleged corruption case in the procurement of teaching and learning aids (ABBM) at the Mataram Poltekkes were detained by the NTB Police, Tuesday, August 8. (Between)

West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Regional Police (Polda) detained AD and ZF, two suspects in the alleged corruption case in the procurement of teaching and learning aids (ABBM) at the Mataram Health Polytechnic (Poltekkes).

The detention of the two suspects took place at around 13.00 WITA, Tuesday, August 8. The detention measure was also witnessed by the attorneys of the two suspects.

"Yes, that's right. Investigators detained the two suspects at the NTB Police Detention Center," said Head of Public Relations of the NTB Police, Kombes Pol. Arman Asmara Syarifuddin by telephone, Tuesday, August 8, confiscated by Antara.

In the case that took place in 2017, the suspect AD is known to play a role as the power user of the budget (KPA) alias Director of the Mataram Poltekkes and ZF as the official commitment maker (PPK) alias as the Head of the Nursing Department (Kajur) at the Mataram Poltekkes.

Investigators investigating this case received a state loss of IDR 3.2 billion. This figure emerged based on the results of an audit of the calculation of state financial losses (PKKN) from the NTB Representative Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP).

Case files belonging to suspects AD and ZF are currently P21 or complete.

With such a handling status, investigators are now only required to carry out phase two of the delegation of the two suspects and evidence to the public prosecutor.

As for this case, the procurement of ABBM, which was sourced from the 2017 State Budget, was channeled through the Indonesian Ministry of Health with a budget of Rp. 19 billion.

Purchases of ABBM goods were carried out through e-catalog. However, some went directly through a tender system which was won by seven provider companies involving 11 distributors.

One of the items purchased was a mannequin. The tool is to support practices in the majors of nurses, midwives, nutrition, and health analysts.

However, it is suspected that some of the items sourced from the procurement cannot be used so that they are stalled. The reason the campus cannot use it is because it is not in accordance with the needs of the learning curriculum.

From this case previously, there were findings from the Inspectorate General of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia worth Rp. 4 billion. This figure is still common because it not only emerged from the Mataram Poltekkes, but also from the Banda Aceh and Tasikmalaya Poltekkes, West Java.

Investigators once asked for a copy of the findings of the Indonesian Ministry of Health's Itjen for the purpose of auditing state losses. However, the Inspector General rejected the request so that investigators traced the loss by cooperating with BPKP.