Aceh Besar Prosecutor's Office Names Corruption Suspects For Market Retribution Of IDR 381 Million

The Aceh Besar District Attorney's Office (Kejari) has named one suspect in a case of alleged corruption in the management of market service levies, wholesale and/or shops at the Lambaro and Keutapang traditional markets by the Cooperatives Service, local Trade SMEs.

"The suspect has the initials M (52) who is the Head of Trade for the Cooperatives, SMEs and Trade Office of Aceh Besar, ex-officio Head of the official market task force," said Kajari Aceh Besar, Basril G, as reported by ANTARA, Thursday, January 25.

Basril said the suspect M (52) was suspected of committing a criminal act of corruption from July 2020 to December 2021.

In this case, the suspect abused his authority along with witnesses MS, MH, KH and witnesses MN. Where, they did not carry out the management of regional income from the collection and collection of market levies properly.

"They enrich and benefit themselves, others or a corporation that causes state financial losses of Rp. 381.4 million," he said.

The suspect violated Article 2 paragraph (1), Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 paragraph (1) letters a, b paragraph (2), paragraph (3) of Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning Eradication of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 Paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code.

Basril said that in this case investigators had confiscated 30 documents/letters as evidence, examined 45 witnesses and were in the process of calculating State Financial Losses by the Aceh Representative BPKP.

For the purposes of the investigation process to the suspect, the prosecutor's office detained him for 20 days, and entrusted him to the Class II B Jantho Detention Center.

"The detention was carried out because he was worried that the suspect would run away, damage or destroy evidence and or repeat the crime as stated in Article 21 paragraph 1 of the Criminal Procedure Code," said Basril.