Corruption Defendant Disperindag Dompu Titip Rp80 Million To The Public Prosecutor, The Judge Expressed That He Had Not Been Called An Effort To Recover Losses

The public prosecutor calculated the money deposited by the defendant Yanrik worth Rp. 80 million in front of the panel of judges.

MATARAM - One of the defendants in the corruption project for the procurement of metrology tools and other infrastructure at the Dompu Industry and Trade Office (Disperindag), West Nusa Tenggara, entrusted IDR 80 million in cash to the public prosecutor. The defendant Yanrik left the money before the panel of judges in a trial with the agenda of examining witnesses at the Corruption Court at the Mataram District Court, Thursday, September 14. Chairman of the Panel of Judges I Ketut Somanasa stated that the defendant's deposit could not be called an effort to recover state losses. Instead, in the prosecution process at the depository trial it was considered a form of confiscation by the public prosecutor. "Because the money is not a recovery of state losses, we have ordered investigators through the public prosecutor to carry out the confiscation," said Somanasa as quoted by Antara. Furthermore, the chairman of the panel of judges ordered the public prosecutor to determine the status of the confiscated money. If judged as part of the recovery of state losses, the judge asked the public prosecutor to state this in court. After the trial, the defendant Yanrik's legal adviser, Putriana hopes that with this Rp80 million deposit, the public prosecutor and the panel of judges can make it a consideration in making decisions. "So, the money we have deposited through this trial is good faith from our client to recover state losses. Hopefully it can be considered by the judge in adjudicating our client's case," said Putriana. The defendant was previously recorded to have submitted money worth Rp. 50 million. The handover took place before the project issue, which was allegedly not in accordance with the procurement specifications, went to the legal process, namely after the inspectorate issued a report on the results of the examination. "So, in total, from our own client, we have handed over Rp130 million of the total state loss of Rp398 million," he said. In this case there are three defendants. Apart from Yanrik who acted as project implementer, the other two defendants came from the government, namely Sri Suzana in her capacity as Head of Disperindag Dompu and Iskandar in his position as head of the field. The public prosecutor in the indictment revealed that there was an evil conspiracy between Sri Suzana and her subordinate, Iskandar, who first received the mandate from Muhammad, Head of the Dompu Disperindag before Sri Suzana as the technical implementing officer of the activity (PPTK). The conspiracy relates to Sri Suzana's duties and responsibilities as a budget user from the implementation of the 2018 project using the special allocation fund of the Indonesian Ministry of Trade amounting to Rp1.5 billion. Sri Suzana was revealed to have asked Iskandar as PPTK to prepare a procurement plan document in the form of technical specifications, self-estimated prices (HPS), and a reference framework.

Iskandar, who is also a defendant in this case, was revealed to have compiled the completeness document not in accordance with the provisions, one of which was in determining the value of HPS without surveys and direct communication to goods distributors. With this issue, the public prosecutor stated in the indictment that the results of the project work did not match the procurement specifications.