Corruption Cases In The Inamosol Maluku Road Section, 4 Defendants Including The Head Of PUPR SSB Session Of The Indictment

Four defendants suspected of corruption in the Rombatu-Manusa Road section in Inamosol District underwent trial on the agenda of the indictment at the Ambon Corruption Court, today. (Between)

MALUKU - The trial of alleged corruption in the budget for the construction of the Rombatu-Manusa Road section in Inamosol District, West Seram Regency (SSB), Maluku, was held today. A total of four defendants attended the trial with an indictment agenda.

The defendants are Thomas Wattimena, Jorie Sookotta, Ronald Renyut and Guwen Salhuteru.

In the indictment, the public prosecutor or prosecutor stated that the defendant Thomas Wattimena as the Head of the SBB Regency PUPR Office knew that the road project work had not been completed 100 percent but the search for the fourth and V stages of the budget could be carried out.

The Public Prosecutor said that the construction work for the Rambatu Village-Manusa Village Road segment came from the Special Allocation Fund for the 2018 Fiscal Year with a working value in the original contract of Rp29,858 billion.

Then the value was changed according to the addendum of Rp. 31,428 billion with an implementation period of 270 calendar days starting from March 26 to December 27, 2018 and handled by PT. Bias Sinar Abadi.

"The defendant Thomas Wattimena knows that the work on Jalan Rumbatu Manusa has not been completed, but has approved the application for disbursement of payment terms IV and V," explained the prosecutor.

The defendant Jorie Sookotta as PPK and treasurer then manipulated the documents as if the work had been completed. Even though the facts on the job progress field only reached 70.90 percent complete.

The prosecutor also said that the defendant Guwen Salhuteru manipulated Ronal Renyut's signature as Director of PT. Bias Sinar Abadi.

"That the defendant Thomas Wattimena at the time of submitting the application for payment disbursement term IV and V had known consciously and it was certain that the work had not yet reached 100," said the Public Prosecutor.

In the process, the defendant Jorie Sookotta then carried out the work payment process.

Furthermore, all terms IV and term V payment documents were manipulated in the form of a Work Progress Examination Report Document Number 600/11/BA-PKP.IV/PPK-DAK-JS/XII/2018 dated December 26, 2018, which was signed by Jorie Soekotta as PPK and Ronal Renyut as Director of PT. BSA.

However, Ronald's signature was forged by Guwen Salhuteru, who said that in the two points the work had been carried out in accordance with the provisions in the contract and the work had reached 100 percent progress, even though in fact it had only reached 70.90 percent.

In addition, the defendant also ordered witness Jorie Sookotta to make a Termin IV payment report or 100 percent on the pretext of the reason for securing the transfer of DAK funds to the Regional Treasury.

Whereas in the document of disbursement of funds, it was written that 100 percent of the funds had been disbursed while the facts on the ground were not yet completed.

All financial documents for the disbursement were also known by Jorie Sookotta as PPK on December 28, 2018, which was used as the basis for the issuance of SP2D, where at that time the defendant Thomas did not carry out the formal-material truth testing of the bill in question.

However, the defendant ordered payment to the expenditure treasurer and signed the SPM even though he knew that the progress of the work had not yet reached 100 percent).

Furthermore, based on the Minutes of Investigation on Work Progress, PT. BSA received a payment of 95 percent.

So that on December 27, 2018, the disbursement of funds for phase V has been transferred/transferred to PT. BSA's 0353 02 002097 301 account worth a Contract Amendment to addendum to Rp31,428 billion.

Finally, witness Jorie Sookotta as PPK and witness Josephus Siahaya as field directors in March 2019 with the team conducted a follow-up field examination and obtained certain facts that the work had not been completed 100 percent.

The reason is that in real terms on December 26, 2018, new jobs reached 13.6 km and there was a shortage of about 11.4 km.

Furthermore, based on a field physical examination by expert Willem Gaspersz, it was explained that the road construction work was found to be a lack of volume in the contract on the Budget Plan (RAB).

There is a difference in the volume/material material from the cumulative results that are carried out is smaller when compared to the one in the contract, even though all work costs have been disbursed.

The actions of the defendant Thomas Wattimena with witnesses Jorie Sookotta, Ronald Renyut and Guwen Salhuteru have violated Article 89 (4) of the Presidential Decree on the Procurement of Goods and Services.

According to the prosecutor, the result of the defendant's actions and the witnesses cost the state finances Rp7,124 billion.

The defendant's actions violated Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 paragraph (1), paragraph (2) and paragraph (3) of Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning amendments to Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code.

The panel of judges postponed the trial until next week with the agenda of hearing the testimony of witnesses.