Alex Noerdin Directly Attends The Corruption Court For The Construction Of The Grand Mosque At The Palembang District Court

Alex Noerdin at the Palembang District Court Corruption Court/Photo: Antara

PALEMBANG - Former Governor of South Sumatra Alex Noerdin attended the trial of the alleged corruption case in the grant funds for the construction of the Sriwijaya Grand Mosque and the purchase of natural gas by the Regional Mining and Energy Enterprise (PDPDE) 2010-2019 BUMD at the Palembang District Court, Tuesday 17 May. Between, in the trial, the defendant Alex Noerdin was presented with three other defendants by the South Sumatra High Court and the General Prosecutor (JPU) of the Attorney General's Office. The three defendants, namely Muddai Madang (former Director of PT Dika Karya Lintas Nusa, concurrently President Director of PDPDE Sumsel) , Caca Ica Saleh S. (former Director of PDPDE and former President Director of PDPDE Gas), and A. Yaniarsyah Hasan (former Director of PT Dika Karya Lintas Nusantara concurrently Director of PT PDPDE Gas, former President Director of PDPDE Sumsel). Alex Noerdin and the defendants The other members attended the trial in the Main Meeting Room of the Palembang District Court to provide testimony to each other a The four defendants are scheduled to take part in the first trial in the case of alleged corruption in the purchase of natural gas by the BUMD of the South Sumatra Regional Mining and Energy Company (PDPDE) 2010-2019 starting at 10.00 WIB and is still ongoing. After that, the trial of the alleged corruption case of the grant funds for the construction of the Great Mosque of Sriwijaya Palembang with the defendants Alex Noerdin and Muddai Madang as the former Treasurer of the Waqf Foundation of the Sriwijaya Mosque.

They were charged with violating Article 2 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended by Law no. 20 of 2001 in conjunction with Article 55 of the Criminal Code, subsidiary to Article 3 of Law no. 31/1999 jo. Article 55 paragraph (1) 1 of the Criminal Code. In the case of alleged corruption in the PDPDE, the Public Prosecutor revealed that there was an unnatural deviation resulting in state financial losses which, according to expert calculations from the Indonesian Supreme Audit Agency, amounted to 30,194,452.79 US dollars. derived from the proceeds from the sale of gas minus operating costs for the period 2010-2019, which should have been received by the South Sumatra PDPDE worth US$63,750 and Rp2.1 billion, which is a capital contribution that should not have been paid by the South Sumatra PDPDE. The four people were charged with primary charges of Article 2 paragraph (1) jo. Article 18 of Law no. 31/1999 jo. Article 55 paragraph (1) 1 of the Criminal Code, while the subsidiary charges are Article 3 jo. Article 18 of Law no. 31/1999 jo. Article 55 paragraph (1) 1 of the Criminal Code.