Former Kendari Mayor Sulkarnain Kadir Corruption Suspect Responds To Calls For The Southeast Sulawesi Prosecutor's Office

Former Kendari Mayor Sulkarnain Kadir while attending the examination as a suspect at the Southeast Sulawesi Prosecutor's Office. (Between/La Ode Muh Deden Saputra)

KENDARI - Mantan Wali Kota Kendari Sulkarnain Kadir tersangka kasus dugaan korupsi PT Midi Utama Indonesia menghadiri panggilan pemeriksaan sebagai tersangka di Kejati Tinggi (Kejati) Sulawesi Tenggara (Sultra).

Head of the Legal Information Section (Kasi) of the Southeast Sulawesi Prosecutor's Office, Dody, said the Mayor of Kendari for the 2017-2022 period attended a summons for the examination of the Southeast Sulawesi Prosecutor's Office as a suspect, on Wednesday (23/8) at around 18.00 WITA.

"So, today the suspect on behalf of the SK has fulfilled the summons of the Southeast Sulawesi Prosecutor's Office investigators, then he came to the investigators at 18.00 WITA," said Dody as quoted by ANTARA.

Before being investigated as a suspect, Sulkarnain Kadir first carried out the Maghrib prayer at the Southeast Sulawesi Attorney General's Office prayer room and then entered to meet investigators for examination.

"Then at 18.20 WITA, go to the investigator's room for an examination," he explained.

Previously, the suspect in the alleged corruption case (Tipikor) of the former Kendari Mayor Sulkarnain Kadir was absent from the summons for examination by the Southeast Sulawesi Prosecutor's Office.

"In accordance with the schedule for the examination of the Southeast Sulawesi Prosecutor's Office investigators that the person concerned will be examined as a suspect today and it turns out that the person concerned is not present at the high prosecutor's office in accordance with the summons from investigators," said Head of Section (Kasi) Legal Information (Penkum) of the Southeast Sulawesi Attorney General's Office, Dody in Kendari Friday.

Dody said that according to the suspect's legal adviser, the former Kendari Mayor for the 2017-2022 period did not attend the summons of the Southeast Sulawesi Prosecutor's Office investigators because he was outside the area for the completion of the study in Bandung, West Java.

"But the legal adviser concerned came to the Southeast Sulawesi High Prosecutor's Office and submitted a letter essentially in the letter stating that the suspect SK could not be present to fulfill the summons from investigators because he was still outside the area in Bandung, West Java is still completing his doctoral program," said Dody.