Lampung Prosecutor's Office Names 3 Suspects Of Corruption In Waste Retribution, One Of Them Is The Former Head Of The Environment Office

The Lampung Prosecutor's Office has named three suspects in the alleged corruption case of waste retribution. Bandarlampung, Monday, (6/3/2023). (ANTARA)

Lampung High Prosecutor's Special Crime Investigators (Kejati) have named three suspects in a case of alleged corruption in waste levies at the Bandar Lampung City Environmental Service (DLH). "Today there are three suspects named related to the alleged corruption of DLH. Later, Aspidsus will convey the three suspects directly," said Head of Legal Information (Kasi Penkum) of the Lampung Attorney General's Office, I Made Agus Putra in Bandar Lampung, Antara, Monday, March 6. Assistant for Special Crimes (Aspidsus) of the Lampung Prosecutor's Office, Hutamrin, said the three suspects had the initials SH as Head of the Bandar Lampung City Environment Agency in 2019-2021, HF as Head of Environmental Management at the Bandar Lampung City Environment Service. Finally, HY as the assistant treasurer of the recipient at the Bandar Lampung City Environment Service. "We have named them suspects based on two pieces of evidence," he said. He continued that the three suspects violated Article 2 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 18 of Law No.31 of 1999 as amended by Law No. 20 of 2001 concerning Amendments to Law No. 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 Paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code in conjunction with Article 64 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code. "Then subsidies Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law No.31 of 1999 as amended by Law No. 20 of 2001 concerning Amendments to Law No. 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 Paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code in conjunction with Article 64 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code," he said. Hutamrin added that in this case the state loss reached Rp6 billion. In the future, his party will issue a special order for the three suspects to be investigated. "In the future, we will conduct a special examination of the three. Regarding their roles, we will convey them to the investigation process. Furthermore, whether or not it is the investigator's authority, I cannot announce whether they are detained or not," he said. The team of investigating prosecutors in the field of special criminal acts at the Lampung Prosecutor's Office on September 20, 2022, has officially raised its handling status to the investigation stage. Status improvement based on the Investigation Order of the Head of the Lampung High Prosecutor's Office Number: Print-07/L.8/Fd.1/06/2022 dated June 9, 2022. The Bandarlampung City Environment Agency in this case did not have mandatory retribution identification data in accordance with the determination from the Head of the Office (Kadis) so that it was not known the potential for real income (real) from the collection of waste service levies in Bandarlampung. Then in the context of collecting waste levies from 2019 to 2021, the Bandarlampung DLH found a fact that there was a difference between the number of tickets printed and the number of tickets reported and tickets handed over to retribution collectors. There was also a fact that the retribution payment results collected by retribution collectors from both DLH and UPT waste services in the sub-district were not deposited into the regional treasury within 1 X 24 hours and there were retribution collectors who did not have an official assignment letter. In addition, from 2019 to 2021 by DLH Bandarlampung, it was found that there were facts about the results of the collection of levies that were not fully deposited into the regional treasury but were used for other interests and personal interests.