Wait For BPKP To Calculate State Losses So The Reason The KPK Has Not Detained The Suspect In The PPE Corruption Case

Head of KPK News Section Ali Fikri (Photo: Wardhany T/VOI)

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) revealed the detention of a corruption suspect in the procurement of protective equipment (PPE) pending the calculation of state losses from the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP). Head of the KPK News Section Ali Fikri said the suspects in this case were subject to Article 2 or Article 3 of the Anti-Corruption Law. Thus, state losses need to be known before detention. "Untuk melengkapi alat bukti setiap untuk, setiap orang, melawan hukum kemudian diduga merugikan keuangan negara kan dibutuhkan hingga nanti kami mendapatkan data lengkap dari lembaga yang berhak mengungkap kerugian keuangan negara dalam hal ini BPKP,” kata Ali kepada wartawan di Gedung Merah Putih KPK, Kuningan Persada, Jakarta Selatan, Selasa, 9 Januari. After getting the results of state losses, continued Ali, the suspects will be summoned. They will then be asked for information before a forced detention is carried out. Not only that, the summoning of witnesses will be carried out. One of them is Budy Badya who is the PPK of the Health Center of the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) in 2020. The KPK suspects that Budy knows about procurement that costs up to Rp3.03 trillion and causes state losses which are estimated at Rp600 billion. “ Currently, the investigation is still at the stage of examining the parties named as suspects, as witnesses,” he said. Previously reported, the KPK named a suspect in the alleged corruption case in the procurement of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) at the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) for the period 2020-2022 or during the COVID-19 pandemic. The number is more than one person. However, regarding the identity and exact number of suspects in this case, Ali has not opened it. From the results of the temporary investigation, the value of state losses caused reached hundreds of billions of rupiah. The loss was from the project value of Rp3.03 trillion for the procurement of 5 million PPE packages. In this case, five people have been prevented from leaving the country.

The anti-corruption commission did not specify them, but they are Budi Badminton as the state civil apparatus (ASN) at the Ministry of Health, Hermansyah who is an ASN from the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB, Satrio Wibowo and Ahmad Taufik as private sector, and A. Isdar Yusuf as advocates.