Kejari Sets Head Of SME Cooperative For Corruption Suspect Medan Fashion Festival

The Medan District Attorney has confirmed three suspects in the alleged corruption case of the Medan Fashion Festival 2024 activities carried out by the Medan City Cooperatives, SMEs, Industry and Trade Office with a state loss value of around Rp. 1.13 billion.

"Today we have named three people as suspects of corruption at the Medan Fashion Festival in 2024 which will be held by the Medan City Cooperatives, SMEs, Industry and Trade Office," said Head of the Medan Kejari Fajar Syah Putra as reported by ANTARA, Thursday, November 13.

The three suspects are BIN as Head of the Medan City Industry and Trade SME Cooperative Service as Budget User (PA), ES as Secretary of the Office as well as Commitment Making Officer (PPK), and MH as Director of CV Global Mandiri as the executor of the activity.

"After being named suspects, BIN and MH were immediately detained at the Tanjung Gusta Medan Detention Center for the next 20 days," said Kajari accompanied by Kasi Pidsus Mochamad Ali Rizza and Head of Intelligence Dapot Dariarma.

Meanwhile, the suspect ES has not been detained because he did not fulfill the investigator's summons on the grounds of illness.

"ES has not attended the call. Earlier, only his legal advisers came with a sick certificate. We will call again and if they do not attend again, forced efforts will be made," he said.

Fajar said the determination and detention of the suspects was carried out after the Medan Special Criminal Investigation Team conducted a series of intensive examinations of related parties and found two sufficient pieces of evidence.

Based on the results of the Medan Kejari investigation, the Medan Fashion Festival 2024 activities were carried out at a five-star hotel with a contract or budget ceiling value of IDR 4,854,339,302.

However, in its implementation, it was found that there were procedural irregularities and payments to third parties that did not comply with the provisions.

"The actions of the suspects resulted in state financial losses of Rp. 1,132,000,000," said Fajar.

Investigators found suspects BIN as PA and ES as PPK appointed MH as the executor of the activity without going through the proper technical qualification process.

In addition, payments to subvendors are also made unofficially which should be paid directly to the implementers of the appointed activities.

For their actions, the three suspects were suspected of violating Article 2 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) 1 of the Criminal Code.