Samosir Prosecutor's Office Names Suspect In Simanindo Port Corruption Case

Head of the Legal Information Section (Kasi Penkum) of the North Sumatra High Court, Yos A. Tarigan/PHOTO VIA ANTARA

MEDAN - The Samosir District Attorney (Kejari) has named MS as a suspect in the alleged corruption case in the Port Services Management at Simanindo, Samosir Regency, North Sumatra.

The Head of the Legal Information Section (Kasi Penkum) of the North Sumatra High Prosecutor's Office, Yos A. Tarigan, stated that the determination of the suspect was based on an order from the Head of the Samosir District Attorney Number. Print-05/L.2.33.4/01/2020 dated January 17, 2022.

The suspect, a former Head of the Ferry Motor Vessel Unit (KMP) of North Sumatra I and North Sumatra II, has manipulated ticket sales which should have been deposited in the account of PT. Pembangunan Prasarana North Sumatra (PT. PPSU) through Bank Sumut.

"However, the suspect did not deposit the money from the ticket sales, and committed fraud, thereby harming PT PPSU's finances and state finances," he said, quoted by Antara, Thursday, January 20.

Yos said that based on the results of the audit of the calculation of state financial losses from the Public Accounting Firm and Management Consultant Drs Katio & Partners, it was found that the company and the state suffered losses of IDR 229,742,557.

"The suspect violated Article 2 paragraph (1) Article 3 Junto Article 18 paragraph (1), (2) Law Number 31 of 1999 as amended by Law 20 of 2021 concerning the Eradication of Non-Criminal Corruption," said Yos.

PT. PPSU is a Regional Owned Enterprise (BUMD) of North Sumatra Province with its working area in Samosir Regency, and operating at Simanindo Port.