The Mode Of Buying Vocers To Eat, Three Civil Servants From The Ministry Of Transportation Were Affected By The OTT Extortion Of Truck Drivers

BENGKULU - Three civil servants (PNS) at the Directorate General of Land Transportation of the Ministry of Transportation were subjected to a hand arrest operation (OTT) committing a criminal act of illegal levies with the mode of eating vouchers to truck drivers at the UPPKB Timbang Bridge located in Rejang Lebong Regency, Bengkulu.

The Directorate of Special Criminal Investigation (Dirkrimsus) of the Bengkulu Regional Police (Polda) arrested three civil servants (PNS) at the Directorate General of Land Transportation of the Ministry of Transportation for committing criminal acts of illegal levies.

The Head of Public Relations of the Bengkulu Police, Kombes Pol Anuardi, named the three suspects, namely WH (42) a resident of Rejang Lebong Regency, HAP (40) a resident of Bengkulu City and FR (43) a resident of Bengkulu City. "The arrest of the three people is because all three jointly committed acts against the law or abuse of authority by forcing someone to give money in the process of checking the heavy amount," said Kombes Pol Anuardi quoted from ANTARA, Wednesday 27 March. In the process of making KIR on the bridge weighing motor vehicle weighing weighing unit (UPPKB) The Class III Land Transportation Management Center of the Ministry of Transportation located in Padang Ulak Tanding District (PUT) Rejang Lebong Regency, Bengkulu Province. "Because we carried out OTT, we were able to prove it on that day, but I am sure that (extortion) activities were very long because many reports from truck drivers and people who used these weight bridge services," he said. For the mode used by the three suspects, namely replacing money into coupons handed over to restaurants around the location so that it seemed as if the illegal levies were diverted by coupons submitted to the suspects. He explained that the illegal levies carried out by the suspects varied, namely Rp10 thousand to Rp50 thousand depending on the estimated excess tonnage and for making new KIRs of Rp600 thousand.

"The scale bridge should be free and then if the excess tonnage should be ticketed, besides that there is extortion related to the management of KIR, such as if the KIR dies, the three promise to issue a new KIR at a cost of Rp600 thousand," he explained. For his actions, the three suspects are threatened with Article 12 letter E junto Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 as amended and added to Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning the eradication of criminal acts of corruption with a minimum penalty of four years in prison and a maximum of 20 years in prison.