Kejari Wajo Tahan 2 Tersangka Dugaan Korupsi Tanah Irigia Rp754 Juta

The Special Criminal Investigation Team (Pidsus) of the Wajo District Attorney, South Sulawesi, detained two people after being named suspects in the alleged corruption case in compensation in the land acquisition of the Gilereng Irrigation Region (DI), Sakkoli Village, Sajoanging District, Wajo Regency, South Sulawesi

"Coordinator of the investigation team Andi Trismanto has detained suspects BS and MA for the next 20 days at the Class IIB Sekang Detention Center, and for suspect AA has now been detained at the Makassar Detention Center in another case," said Head of the Information and Law Section of the South Sulawesi High Prosecutor's Office, Soertami, as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, February 7.

The reason for the detention of the suspect is subjective reasons based on Article 21 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code, namely in the case of concerns that the suspect will run away, destroy evidence or destroy evidence and/or repeat criminal acts.

The objective reason, based on article 21 paragraph (4) letter a of the Criminal Code, is that the crime is punishable by imprisonment of five years or more. As a result of the suspect's actions resulted in state financial losses of around Rp754, 4 million more.

This is according to the Audit Report on the Calculation of State Financial Losses issued by the Regional Inspectorate of the South Sulawesi Provincial Government on Land Procurement for the Construction of the Irrigation Regional Irrigation Network (DI) Gilireng, Wajo Regency for the 2021 fiscal year as of August 16, 2023.

The three people have been named as suspects on suspicion of corruption in compensation in the procurement of irrigation land for DI Gilereng, Sakkoli Village, Sajoanging District, Wajo Regency for the 2021 fiscal year.

The determination of the suspect's status after the Wajo Kejari investigators found two valid pieces of evidence so that based on the evidence, there were three suspects with the initials AA, BS and MA.

Previously, the Kejari Wajo investigating team had named suspect SH in this case and had entered the trial stage and based on the facts of the trial in connection with the alleged corruption in the case.

Based on the results of the examination of witnesses and experts at the trial, the role of defendant AA ordered the making of sporadics to suspects BS and MA and after that the suspects BS and MA made sporadic preparations for four plots of land in the name of the head of Sakoli Village.

In addition, the investigative team has sufficient evidence as stipulated in Article 184 of the Criminal Procedure Code to determine AA, BS and MA in the process of disbursing compensation funds as Chair of Task Force B and Members as suspects based on the Decree of the Head of the Wajo District Attorney Number: 05/P.4.19/Fd.1/02/2024, 06/P.4.19/Fd.1/02/2024 and 07/P.4.19/Fd.1/02/2024 dated February 06, 2024.

The three suspects are suspected of violating Article 2 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 18 Subsidiary Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning Amendments to Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code.