Handled By The Prosecutor's Office And Prosecutor's Office, The Indictment Of 5 Corruption Suspects For The Jambi Port Project Pelindo II Is Being Developed

Illustration of the trial. (Pixabay)

JAMBI - The Prosecutor's Office is preparing indictment files for five suspects in the alleged corruption case of the Jambi Port Council Pandu Teluk Station repair project at PT Pelindo Regional II Jambi for the 2019-2021 fiscal year.

In this case, the three suspects are handled by the Jambi High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati). The three of them are Andrianto Rahmadah as PJ DJM of operation and Jambi Port branch engineering, Chepy Rymeta Atmaja as former Jambi branch Pelindo GM and Sanda Badjanto as Jambi Port Branch GM.

Meanwhile, two other suspects in the same case were handled by the Tanjung Jabung Timur (Tanjabtim) District Attorney. Both, namely Ibrahim as Director of 4 Cipta Consultant and MT Yombi Laras Sandi, are the President Director of Waybekhak Perkasa.

"There are five suspects where three suspects were transferred by Jambi Police investigators, of which three suspects were handled or transferred to the Jambi Attorney General's Office while the other two suspects were handled by the Tanjabtim Kejari," said Head of the Information and Law Section (Kasi Penkum) Jambi Attorney General's Office Lexy Fatharany in Jambi, Wednesday 6 December, confiscated by Antara.

Previously, the Jambi Regional Police had named a suspect in this case.

Based on the results of the calculation of state losses from BPKP, the alleged corruption in the Jambi Port Council Pandu Teluk Station repair project at PT Pelindo Regional II Jambi is estimated at IDR 3.92 billion.

The authorities have also confiscated as a form of recovering state financial losses in the form of cash amounting to Rp3.4 billion.

This case began in 2018 when PT Pelindo II budgeted a multi-year investment budget to build the guide station. On December 3, 2019 to January 31, 2020, a tender process was carried out.

In the tender process, PT. Way Berhak Perkasa was the winner, then on February 21, 2020, a contract was signed between ST's brother as GM Pelindo Jambi and YL's brother as President Director of PT. Way Berhak Perkasa with a contract value of IDR 12 billion with an implementation period of 240 calendars.

On August 11, 2020, YL as the contractor transferred all physical work to other parties. On June 11, 2021, PT Pelindo II (Persero) terminated its Jambi port branch with physical progress of 91.946 percent and Pelindo II paid the tender winner Rp10 billion.

After a joint investigation process was carried out by the Tipidkor Sub-Directorate of the Jambi Police together with the Tipidkor Unit of the East Tanjung Jabung Police, several unlawful acts were found.

Acts against the law include the tender process that has been regulated, reports of engineered work progress, work addendum processes that do not comply with the provisions, transferring all work to other contractors and other unlawful acts.

For his actions, five suspects are threatened with Article 2 paragraph 1 and Article 3 in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph 1 1 of the Criminal Code with a minimum imprisonment of four years and a maximum of 20 years with a fine of at least Rp. 200 million and a maximum of Rp. 1 billion.