Prosecutor Rejects Exception Of Makassar PDAM Corruption Defendant Haris Yasin Limpo

The trial of the Makassar/ANTARA HO/Documentation PDAM corruption case at the South Sulawesi Attorney General's Office.

The Public Prosecutor of the South Sulawesi High Prosecutor's Office rejected all exceptions or objections submitted by the defendants Haris Yasin Limpo (HYL) and Irawan Abadi (IA) regarding the alleged corruption case in the use of the Makassar City Drinking Water Company (PDAM) funds.

"The public prosecutor is of the opinion that the objections that have been conveyed by the defendant Haris Yasin Limpo, Irawan Abadi through their legal advisors are groundless and baseless," said South Sulawesi Prosecutor Muhammad Yusuf, together with Kamaria, and Ariani Femi when reading the answer to the defendant's exception at the Makassar Corruption Court. reported by ANTARA, Thursday, May 25.

The public prosecutor asked the Panel of Judges to decide by stipulating, rejecting all objections or exceptions of the two defendants. Stated that the indictment of the public prosecutor is valid and meets the requirements as stipulated in Article 143 Paragraph 2 letter a, b KUHAP. The judge was asked to continue examining the cases of the two defendants.

Hearing the public prosecutor's answer, Chairman of the Corruption Court, Hendri Tobing, decided on a follow-up hearing with an interim decision agenda.

Previously, the Defendant HYL, also the younger brother of the Minister of Agriculture Syahrul Yasin Limpo, submitted a note of objection or exception to his case by stating that the indictment of the Makassar PDAM corruption case worth Rp20.3 billion was vague or assumed by the public prosecutor.

In addition, 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.

It should have been more than Rp. 19.1 billion. Because, he never proposed the insurance during his tenure as General Director of PDAM Makassar for the 2015-2019 period. In fact, he admitted that he only proposed bonuses and bonuses for production services in 2017.

The public prosecutor in the indictment stated that the defendants HYL, former President Director of PDAM for the 2016-2019 period, and IA, the former Director of Finance of PDAM, had committed a criminal act of corruption in the use of Makassar City PDAM funds for payment of bonuses and bonuses/production services since 2017-2019 and premium insurance for the position of mayor and deputy mayor since 2016-2019.

The articles charged with both primary and subsidiary are Article 2 paragraph (1) and Article 2 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended and supplemented by Law of the Republic of Indonesia number 20 of 2001 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts 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.

The defendant was charged with committing acts of enriching himself or other person or a corporation that cost the state's finances or the state's economy more than Rp20.3 billion as stated in the audit report on the calculation of state financial losses.