KPK Investigate Hundreds Of Billions Of COVID-19 PPE Corruption Flows To Various Parties

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is investigating the flow of corruption money in the procurement of personal protective equipment (PPD) at the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) during the COVID-19 pandemic. This allegation was investigated by two witnesses, one of which was Budi Badminta, who was a former Commitment Making Officer (PPK) at the Health Crisis Center. The witness was investigated, ed) including the alleged flow of money enjoyed by various parties from the procurement," said Head of the KPK News Section Ali Fikri to reporters in a written statement quoted on Tuesday, February 13. In addition to Budi, investigators also examined the Head of the Evaluation and Harmonization Section of the Mining Facilities of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise Pius Rahardjo. From it, the anti-corruption commission not only investigated the flow of money but also the amount of the APB procurement budget. Previously, the KPK named the suspect in the case of alleged corruption in the procurement of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) at the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) for the period 2020-2022 or during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, regarding the identity and the exact number of suspects in this case, Ali has not opened it. From the results of the preliminary investigation of the value of state losses caused to reach hundreds of billions of rupiah.

The loss was from the project value of Rp3.03 trillion for the procurement of 5 million PPE packages. In this case, five people have been prevented from leaving the country. The anti-corruption commission did not specify, but they are Budi Badhi as the state civil apparatus (ASN) at the Ministry of Health, Hermansyah who is an ASN from the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB, Satrio Wibowo and Ahmad Taufik as private sector, and A. Isdar Yusuf as advocates.