Check 40 Witnesses, Attorney General's Office Investigates The Corruption Case To Change The Bengkulu-Taba Tanjung Toll Road

The Bengkulu Attorney General's Office examined 40 witnesses related to the alleged corruption in the cost of compensation for land for the construction of the Bengkulu - Taba Penanjung Toll Road. ANTARA / Anggi Mayasari

BENGKULU - The Bengkulu High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati) continues to investigate cases of alleged corruption in land acquisition and compensation costs for plants and plants for the land for the construction of the first phase of the Bengkulu-Taba Penjung Toll Road 2019-2020. A total of 40 witnesses have been examined in relation to the case.

"In the investigation of the alleged corruption of compensation for plants and plants for the first phase of the Bengkulu Toll Road area, he has examined 40 witnesses," said the Head of the Special Crime Investigation Section of the Bengkulu Attorney General's Office, Danang Prasetyo, in Bengkulu City, quoted from Antara, Monday, November 14. He said, the witnesses examined had different backgrounds, such as village heads, land owners, and so on. In this case, it is suspected that there was overpayment or inflation with the mode of additional cost on the Customs component of Acquisition of Land and Building Rights (BPHTP) and notary costs that should not be included in the land acquisition component. The location of the alleged indication of corruption in the case of compensation for plants and plants is located along the land in the first phase of the Bengkulu-Taba Penjung toll road construction area. It is known that the land price assessment team or land acquisition came from the National Land Agency (BPN), Central Bengkulu Regency Agriculture Service, and the Public Appraisal Service Office (KJPP) is independent of Jakarta.

The task of a different assessment team such as team A carried out calculations related to the area of land and buildings and team B was tasked with calculating plants and plants, and KJPP served as an unphysical appraiser who calculated all of them. Previously, land acquisition funds or compensation for plants and plants in the first phase of the Bengkulu toll road construction area - Taba Penanjung 2019-2020 came from the State Budget (APBN) or the Ministry of PUPR. The budget issued for land acquisition costs reached Rp200 billion. "For state losses caused by land acquisition is still calculated, but reaches billions of rupiah," he said.