Former BPK Member Achsanul Qosasi Charged With Rice Rp40 Billion To Issue WTP 4G BTS Project
JAKARTA - Former Member III of the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK), Achsanul Qosasi was charged with extortion in the 4G Base Transceiver Station (BTS) infrastructure project and supporting infrastructure packages 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. The nominal reached Rp40 billion."Forcing someone to give something, pay, or receivepayment with deductions, or to do something for him"self, namely, in the form of cash amounting to USD 2,640,000 or Rp40 billion," said the prosecutor during a trial at the Corruption Court at the Central Jakarta District Court, Thursday, March 7.The extortion of Achsanul Qosasi was carried out on Anang Achmad Latif, who at that time served as President Director of the Telecommunication and Information Accessibility Agency (BAKTI) Kominfo.The request for a sum of money is intended as wages for the audit results of the 4G BTS infrastructure supply project conducted by BPK."The defendant Achsanul Qosasi assisted in the BTS 4G 2021 work examination carried out by BAKTI Kominfo in order to obtain Unqualified Results (WTP) and find no state losses in project implementation," said the prosecutor.The defendant's request for money was also agreed to by Anang Achmad Latif. Thus, ordering the Commissioner of PT Solitech Media Sinergy, Irwan Hermawan, through the Director of PT Multimedia Berdikari Sejahtera, Windi Purnama, to prepare and hand over the money.After being prepared, the money packaged in the suitcase was brought by Windi and handed over to the defendant Sadikin Rusli in the basement of the Grand Hyaat Hotel on July 19, 2022.Furthermore, Sadikin Rusli handed over Rp40 billion in cash in foreign currency to Achsanul Qosasi.
In this case, Achsanul Qosasi is suspected of violating Article 12 B, Article 12 E, or Article 5 paragraph 1 in conjunction with Article 15 of the Corruption Crime Law and Article 5 paragraph 1 of the Law on the Crime of Money Laundering.