The Prosecutor's Office Names BPK Employees As Suspects Of Extorting Hospitals And Health Centers In Bekasi

BANDUNG - The West Java High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati) has named a Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) officer with the initials AMR as a suspect in extortion cases against hospitals (RS) and health centers in Bekasi Regency.

West Java Attorney General's Office Head Asep N Mulyana said the investigation team had found two pieces of evidence that allowed AMR to be named a suspect after the arrest operation (OTT) was carried out on Wednesday (30/3). Now AMR is being detained.

"The investigative team concluded that AMR was named a suspect because he had met two pieces of evidence, so the case went up for investigation," said Asep at the West Java Prosecutor's Office, Bandung City, West Java, as reported by Antara, Thursday, March 31.

During the hand arrest operation (OTT), there were two BPK officers who were secured by the prosecutor's office, the initials AMR and F. However, after 24 hours, the prosecutor only named AMR as a suspect, while F was not named a suspect.

"The results of the investigation team intensively overnight, until morning and afternoon, still not found enough evidence against F, to be upgraded to the investigation stage," he said.

Even after further calculations, Asep said that the prosecutor's office confiscated the money from the OTT activities of the AMR suspect, which amounted to Rp. 351.9 million. Now the money has been designated as evidence.

The case began when the West Java Representative BPK conducted a routine inspection in December 2021. It is suspected that the person who is now named a suspect asked for money from 17 puskesmas in Bekasi and RSUD Branchbungin.

Then on March 29, 2022, the prosecutor's office received information about the blackmail. From the suspect's hands, the prosecutor's office then found the hundreds of millions of money.

As a result of his actions, AMR was charged with Article 12 e and Article 11 of Law 20 of 2001 concerning amendments to Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the eradication of corruption, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of Rp. 1 billion.