KPK Cecar Former Mandailing Natal Regent Regarding Projects Worked By Suspects In The Bribery Case Of The North Sumatra PUPR Service

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JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is investigating a project in Mandailing Natal Regency which was worked on by M. Akhirun Efendi Siregar, President Director of PT DNG. Former Mandailing Natal Regent Muhammad Jafar Sukhairi Nasution was questioned on Wednesday, July 16.

Meanwhile, M. Akhirun Efendi Siregar is one of five suspects in the alleged bribery of road construction projects at the PUPR Service and PJN Satker Region 1 North Sumatra.

"Investigators are investigating what projects the KIR suspect has obtained and worked on in Madina Regency," said KPK spokesman Budi Prasetyo to reporters in a written statement, Thursday, July 17.

Similar statements, continued Budi, were also investigated from four other witnesses. They are Taufik Lubis as Commissioner of PT Dalihan Natolu; Mariam as Treasurer of PT Dalihan Natolu; Maskuddin Henri who is the Director and Shareholder of PT Rona Na Mora; and Seri Agustina Melinda as Deputy Director of PT Dalihan Natolu.

As previously reported, the KPK held a hand arrest operation (OTT) in the North Sumatra region on Thursday, June 26. It is suspected that money was given in the road construction project in the province.

From this forced effort, the KPK then named Typhoon Obaja Putra Ginting or Typhoon Ginting as the Head of PUPR Office of North Sumatra Province as a suspect along with four other people. They are Effendi Siregar's Rasul as the Head of the Old Mountain UPTD of the North Sumatra Province PUPR Service concurrently the Commitment Making Officer (PPK); Heiyanto as PPK PJN Satker Region I North Sumatra Province; M. Akhirun Efendi Siregar as the President Director of PT DNG; and M. Rayhan Dulasmi Pilang as Director of PT RN.

The Typhoon was in the spotlight because it was inaugurated as the Head of PUPR on February 24 by the Governor of North Sumatra Bobby Nasution. He previously served as Head of the Public Works Service or the Department of Water Resources, Highways and Construction Development of Medan City and had served as Acting (Plt) of the Medan City Secretary when the son-in-law of the 7th President of the Republic of Indonesia sat as Mayor of Medan.

The KPK revealed that there were six road construction projects with a budget of IDR 231.8 billion that were suspected of bribery. The details are as follows:

1. Preservation of Jalan Simpang Pinang-Gunung Tua-Simpang Pal XI 2023 (project value of Rp56.5 billion);2. Preservation of Jalan Simpang Kota Pinang- Gunung Tua-Simpang Pal XI 2024 (project value of Rp17.5 billion);3. Rehabilitation of Jalan Simpang Kota Pinang-Gunung Tua-Simpang Pal XI and handling of avalanches 2025;4. Preservation of Jalan Simpang Kota Pinang-Gunung Tua-Simpang Pal XI 2025;5. Construction of Jalan Sipiongoit boundary Labusel (project value of Rp96 billion); and 6. Construction of Jalan Hutaimbaru-Sipiongot (project value of Rp61.8 billion.