TANGERANG - The District Attorney's Office (Kejari) of Tangerang Regency, Banten arrested the former Head of Kayu Agung Village (Kades), Sepatan District with the initials AD on suspicion of carrying out illegal levies on the complete systematic land registration program (PTSL). "We have determined the suspect and detained the former Head of Kayu Agung Village for his involvement in illegal levies on PTSL," said the Head of Tangerang Regency, Nova Elida Saragih at a press conference in Tangerang, Antara, Thursday, October 20. The suspect AD is known to have made illegal levies by asking for a sum of money with a larger value than the provisions of the legislation in the implementation of the 2019 PTSL program in Kayu Agung Village, Sepatan with a total submission of 2,476 land parcels. "Where in conducting the examination, the investigative team (Kejari) found two pieces of evidence, so that based on this. So the suspect has fulfilled the elements of the law and is not criminalized for corruption," he said. The chronology of the case. In 2019 when the suspect was still serving as Village Head, he ordered his village officials to explain the filing process in the PTSL program. Then, the suspect also instructed the village officials to collect fees of Rp. 150,000 to Rp. 5 million per plot of land as the basis for the name of the applicant. "The suspect ordered the village apparatus to socialize my land ownership certificate, and for those who do not have the letter it cannot be processed to make land certificates at PTSL," he said. He revealed that the determination of the levy for the PTSL program in Kayu Agung Village had collected a total of Rp. 300 million from the applicant who did not change and changed names. "From the results of this extortion, we can collect a total of around Rp. 300 million," he said. He added that the suspect himself would be subject to Article 12 letter e of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended and supplemented by Law Number 20 of 2001. Subsidiary to Article 11 of Law no. 31/1999 as amended and supplemented by Law no. 20/2001. "Furthermore, we are still developing and investigating further related to other suspects who were involved in this PTSL extortion," he said.

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