1, The Total Number Of Suspects In The Financial Corruption Case Of Mining Perusda In East Kalimantan Is 4 People

SAMARINDA - The East Kalimantan High Prosecutor's Office has again detained one new suspect in the alleged corruption case of financial management at the Regional Mining Company Bara Kaltim Sejahtera (BKS) in 2017-2020.

"The suspect with the initials MNH, who is the President Director of PT GBU, was detained after the investigative team found evidence of his involvement in the case. The determination of the MNH suspect is the fourth suspect," said Head of the Legal Information Section of the East Kalimantan Prosecutor's Office Toni Yuswanto in Samarinda, quoted from Antara, Wednesday, February 26.

Previously, investigators had named three suspects in this case, namely IGS as the President Director of Perusda Mining BKS, NJ as the Attorney for Director of CV ALG, and SR as the President Director of PT RPB.

This alleged corruption case began when Perusda Pertambangan BKS collaborated to buy and sell coal with five private companies in 2017-2019 with a total fund of IDR 25.8 billion.

The cooperation is carried out without going through a mechanism in accordance with statutory regulations, such as the approval of the supervisory body and governor as KPM, proposals, feasibility studies, third party business plans, and third party risk management.

"As a result, the cooperation failed and resulted in state financial losses of Rp. 21.2 billion," explained Toni.

The state loss of Rp. 21.2 billion was based on the report on the results of the calculation of state financial losses from the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP) Representative of East Kalimantan Province.

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

Toni added that the detention of the suspect MNH was carried out for the next 20 days at the Samarinda Detention Center. The detention was carried out with consideration of the article which was suspected of being punishable by five years or more.

"This detention was carried out to anticipate the suspect's concern that he would run away, destroy evidence, and repeat the crime," said Toni.