Bengkulu Prosecutor's Office Confiscates 28 Land Fields From Mega Mall Corruption Suspects

The Bengkulu High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati) Special Crime Investigation Team (Kejati) confiscated 28 plots of land belonging to six suspects in the alleged corruption case of regional revenue leakage (PAD) Mega Mall and the modern traditional market (PTM) of Bengkulu City.

The six suspects are former Mayor of Bengkulu for the period 2007 to 2012 as well as former member of the Regional Representative Council (DPD) Ahmad Kanedi, President Director of PT Tigadi Lestari Kurniadi Begawan (KB), President Director of PT Dwisaha Selaras Abadi Wahyu Laksono (WL).

Then, the Director of PT Trigadi Lestari namely Hariadi Bengawan (HB), Commissioner of PT Trigadi Lestari Satriadi Benggawan (SB), and former Bengkulu City National Land Agency (BPN) official Chandra D. Putra (CDP).

"Indeed, the Bengkulu Attorney General's Special Criminal Team went to Palembang and confiscated the suspect's assets as an effort to recover state losses," said Bengkulu Attorney General's Office for Legal Information, Ristianti Andriani, as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, June 25.

He said the Special Crime Investigation Team led by Wenharnol as the Head of Ops for Special Crimes and Arief Wirawan as the Head of the Bengkulu Prosecutor's Office carried out a search of assets belonging to the suspect involved by leaving for Palembang City, South Sumatra Province.

Based on the search results, the team conducted a search and confiscated the house of one of the suspects, namely the Director of PT Trigadi Bengawan, Heriadi.

Ristianti continued, currently the investigative team is coordinating with the Palembang City National Land Agency (BPN) while waiting for the determination of the South Sumatra Palembang District Court.

On the other hand, Bengkulu Attorney General's Office investigators continue to investigate the alleged PAD corruption case and there may be additional new suspects.

This is because since the establishment of Mega Mall and PTM Bengkulu City in 2004 until now there has been no PAD or levy that has entered the regional treasury of the Bengkulu City Government (Pemkot).

It is known that the PAD leak corruption case started with Mega Mall land and Bengkulu PTM switching status from Land Management Rights (HPL) in 2004 to Building Use Rights Certificate (SHGB).

Then the SHGB was broken down into two, namely for Mega Mall and PTM Bengkulu City, because it had been broken down, the certificate of building use rights was used as a deposit to banks by third parties, and when credit was in arrears, SHGB was returned to other banks and owed to third parties.

The state losses in this case are currently still being calculated by the audit team, however, if viewed for a long period of time from 2004 until now, it is likely to reach Rp250 billion.