Head Of Medan City Government SME Cooperative Becomes Fourth Suspect Of Medan Fashion Festival 2024 Corruption

The Medan District Attorney (Kejari) in North Sumatra (North Sumatra) has named the Head of the SME Cooperative Division of the Medan City Industry and Trade SME Cooperative Office with the initials AS as the fourth suspect in the alleged corruption case of the Medan Fashion Festival (MFF) activity in 2024.

"Today, the Special Crimes Investigators of the Medan Kejari have named AS a suspect in the corruption of the Medan Fashion Festival 2024 activity with a budget value of Rp. 4.85 billion," said Head of Intelligence at the Medan Kejari Dapot Dariarma in Medan, North Sumatra, Monday, confiscated by Antara.

Dapot said the determination of the suspect's status against the US was carried out after investigators obtained two sufficient pieces of evidence.

"After being named a suspect, he was immediately detained for the next 20 days at the Medan Class I Detention Center," he said.

Previously, the Medan Kejari investigators had named three suspects in the alleged MFF 2024 corruption case, namely BIN as the Head of the Medan City SME Cooperative Service concurrently a Budget User (PA), ES as the former Secretary of the Perindag SME Diskop who is also a Commitment Making Officer (PPK), and MH as Director of CV Global Mandiri as the executor of the activity.

"The three suspects have already been detained at the Medan Class I Detention Center," said Dapot.

Kasi Pidsus Kejari Medan Mochamad Ali Rizza added that AS was the fourth suspect in the case.

He said the suspect AS as the Technical Implementation Officer (PPTK) changed the technical qualifications of the implementation which should direct activities to carry out the suspect MH.

In addition, the suspect BIN made several payments to sub-vendors or sub-implementing activities in cash and there were still unpaid payments.

According to Razza, all costs of activities should be paid by the suspect MH as Director of CV Global Mandiri as the executor of the appointed activity.

"The US action together with three other suspects resulted in state financial losses of Rp1.13 billion based on the results of the audit of the calculation of state losses," he said.

For his actions, the suspect AS was charged with Article 2 paragraph (1) subsidiary 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) 1st of the Criminal Code.

Currently, the Medan Kejari Pidsus investigation team is still investigating the alleged involvement of other parties in the alleged corruption case.