The Prosecutor's Office detained former PDAM Director Tirta Dharma Bukit Kaba Rejang Lebong Regency with the initials OR who is a suspect in alleged corruption in representation allowances with state losses reaching Rp454 million.

Head of the Rejang Lebong District Attorney's Office (Kejari) Francisco Tarigan said the suspect OR was detained after his party received the second phase of delegation from the Corruption Investigator of the Rejang Lebong Police.

"This suspect as the director at that time, he used his position to benefit himself by issuing a memo to increase his income, and then for representation funds that had no basis," he said at the Kejari Rejang Lebong, Bengkulu, Thursday, November 9, confiscated by Antara.

He explained that the suspect OR was detained and entrusted to the Women's Prison in Bengkulu because he would soon be tried at the Bengkulu Corruption Court.

The suspect OR, he said, is suspected of having committed corruption by abusing his authority as director so that it is detrimental to state finances due to the payment of representation allowances that do not have a legal basis in 2018-2019.

The Head of Special Crimes (Pidsus) of the Rejang Lebong Prosecutor's Office, Albert SE, explained that the suspect OR was judged to have deliberately committed acts of abuse of authority against the representatives of directors and gross salaries every month, resulting in state losses of Rp454 million.

"The actions carried out by the suspect occurred from March 2018 to December 2019," he explained.

According to him, for the suspect in the alleged corruption case at PDAM Tirta Dharma Bukit Kaba, now named Perumda Air Drinking Tirta Bukit Rejang Lebong, his party received one person from the Rejang Lebong Police investigators.


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