North Sulawesi Prosecutor's Office Accepts Corruption Suspect For Drinking Water Grant

The suspect was at the North Sulawesi High Prosecutor's Office/Photo: Antara

MANADO - The Public Prosecution Team at the North Sulawesi High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati) received a suspect and evidence from North Sulawesi Police investigators related to allegations of corruption in the Bitung City drinking water grant for Low-Income Communities (MBR) TA. 2017 and TA. 2018 at PDAM Duasudara Bitung. "Today, Thursday, we have received the suspect RRJL, Acting Director of PDAM Duasudara Bitung and evidence from Polda investigators," said Head of the North Sulawesi (Sulut) Attorney General's Office, Edy Birton, in Manado, Thursday 10 June. said the case of the position of the alleged corruption case committed by the suspect RRJL began in the 2016 budget year. The Ministry of PUPR invited districts/cities throughout Indonesia who were willing to take part in the drinking water grant program and one of them was the City Government (Pemkot) of Bitung. The program in question is asked to complete the requirements/criteria. The Bitung City Government through the Director of PDAM Duasudara Bitung makes a statement that PDAM Duasudara has an unused capacity of 50 liters/second and has a list of potential beneficiaries. as a recipient of the drinking water grant program. However, after receiving do an inspection by irrigation experts and Manado State Polytechnic that PDAM Bitung does not have it, but the difference is less than the planned scheme called the planned scheme plan of 285.00 liters/second while the available = 237.52 liters/second so it is less than 47.48 liters/second.

As a result of the suspect's actions resulting in state losses of Rp. 14 billion. The suspect's actions are as threatened and regulated in Article 2 paragraph (1), and or Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Corruption Crimes as amended and supplemented by Law No. Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning Amendments to Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code. Furthermore, the suspect is detained by the Public Prosecutor for 20 days from June 9, 2022 to 28 June 2022 at the North Sulawesi Police Detention Center, based on the Detention Order signed by the Head of the Bitung District Attorney's Office, Frenkie Son, SH., MM., MH Number: PRINT - 749/P.1.14/Ft.1/06/2022 dated 9 June 2022 on the name of the suspect RRJL. The suspects were received directly by Pingkan Gerungan, SH, MH as the Head of the Prosecution Section at the Assistant for Special Crimes at the North Sulawesi Prosecutor's Office along with other public prosecutor teams and suspect is accompanied by legal counsel.