Kejari Tersangka Korupsi Jalan Lingkar Utara Tanjungbalai Sumut

The Tanjungbalai Kejari has named a suspect with the initials EMS for alleged corruption in the work of road improvement by construction of the northern ring road section in Tanjungbalai, North Sumatra, Thursday (21/3/2024). (HO-Kejari Tanjungbalai)

The Tanjungbalai District Attorney (Kejari) has named a suspect with the initials EMS for alleged corruption in road improvement work with the construction of the northern ring road segment STA-9+830-STA 10+330 with a budget of Rp2,261,761,000 at the PUPR Office of Tanjungbalai City, North Sumatra.

"The suspect is a CV.PRL representative who is the provider or implementer of the activity," said Head of the Intelligence Section of the Tanjungbalai Kejari Andi Shahputra as quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, March 21.

He continued that the suspect had signed a contract and also applied for disbursement for road improvement activities with the construction of the north ring road hotmix STA-9+830-STA 10+330 with a budget of IDR 2,261,761,000 for the 2018 budget.

"In the implementation, it turned out that there was a volume shortage related to the occurrence of state losses and investigators had obtained two pieces of evidence by EMS," said Andi.

Based on the calculation carried out by the BPKP, representatives of North Sumatra have received state financial losses based on Rp318,120,753.89.

EMS is suspected of violating Article 2 paragraph (1) subsidiary Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning Amendments to Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the eradication of criminal acts of corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) to 1 of the Criminal Code with a maximum threat.

"Investigators detained the suspect for 20 days at the Medan Class I Detention Center. Furthermore, investigators filed a filing and submitted it to the research prosecutor to be studied for prosecution," said Andi.