Judge Rejects Suspension Of Detention Of Minister Of Agriculture Haris Yasin Limpo, Defendant Of Corruption PDAM Makassar

Former General Director Of PDAM Makassar City Haris Yasin Limpo/ANTARA

The request for a suspension of detention submitted by two defendants for the alleged corruption case of PDAM Makassar, namely Haris Yasin Limpo (HYL) and Irawan Abadi (IA) was rejected by the panel of judges.

"As a result, rejecting the suspension of detention (the defendant), for reasons of rejection is the right of the panel. The trial is postponed next week with an answer to the exception," said Head of the Information and Law Section of the South Sulawesi High Prosecutor's Office, Soetarmi in Makassar, as reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, May 23.

Previously, the defendant HYL submitted a memorandum of objection or exception to his case by stating that the alleged corruption case of PDAM Makassar worth Rp. 20.3 billion was a escape or assumption from the public prosecutor.

In addition, for office use insurance worth more than IDR 1.1 billion should not be included in state losses of IDR 20.3 billion, such as the public prosecutor's indictment, which should have been more than IDR 19.1 billion.

Because he claimed to have proposed the insurance during his tenure as General Director of PDAM Makassar for the 2015-2019 period. In fact, he only proposed bonuses/production services for 2017.

At the previous trial, the public prosecutor charged two defendants with alleged corruption in the use of the Makassar City PDAM funds for bonus payments, bonuses/production services for the 2017-2019 financial year and the mandatory insurance premium for the 2016-2018 position of Mayor and Deputy Mayor by the South Sulawesi Representative Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP).

The two defendants have been charged with Article 2 paragraph (1) and Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of the Corruption Eradication Law in conjunction with Article 55 Paragraph (1) 1 of the Criminal Code in conjunction with Article 64 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code.