Corruption Suspect In Procurement Of Practical Equipment For West Sumatra Education And Education Office Buron, Attorney General's Office Urges To Surrender

The West Sumatra High Prosecutor's Office. BETWEEN/FathulAbdi

The Prosecutor's Office is hunting for suspects in the alleged corruption case in the procurement of practical tools for vocational high school (SMK) students at the West Sumatra Education Office (Disdik) with the initials BA.

The BA suspect is a fugitive after he was absent from the summons of the West Sumatra Prosecutor's Office, so his name is included in the wanted list, aka DPO.

"We from the Intelligence Division continue to hunt down the suspect's whereabouts and coordinate with the team from the Indonesian Attorney General's Office," said West Sumatra Attorney General's Intelligence Assistant Mustaqpirin in Padang, Thursday, July 5, confiscated by Antara.

He emphasized that the team will continue to investigate and look for the suspect's whereabouts so that he can be faced with investigators to undergo legal examination.

"So far, the search efforts have not yielded results, but we will not give up until the suspect has been arrested," he said.

He warned BA to cooperate and surrender as soon as possible to the West Sumatra Prosecutor's Office, because there is no safe place to hide for criminals.

Mustaqpirin further explained that BA was one of seven people named by investigators as suspects in the alleged corruption case in the project for the procurement of practical tools for vocational students at the West Sumatra Education Office.

In the project, BA, who serves as Director of PT Sikabaluan Jaya Mandiri, is a project procurement partner.

BA along with six other people were named suspects since Tuesday (28/5), but when summoned by investigators for questioning, the person concerned was absent and his whereabouts were unknown.

Meanwhile, the six suspects in the same case were R as the Budget User Authority (KPA), RA as the Technical Implementation Officer (PPTK), both of whom were ASN at the West Sumatra Provincial Education Office.

Then SA as ASN at SMK, DRS (Head of the Service Procurement Work Unit), E (Director of CV Bunga Tri Dara), Su (Deputy Director of CV Bunga Tri Dara), and Sy (Director of Global Innovation).

They have all been examined in their status as suspects by investigators and detained until now in order to speed up the filing process.

The suspects were charged with Article 2 paragraph (1) and Article 3 of Law 31 of 1999 as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 18 in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code.

On the other hand, the West Sumatra Prosecutor's Office Investigation Team also continues to complete the files of the six suspects so that the case can be transferred to court.

Meanwhile, Assistant for Special Crimes, Haliman, explained that the case that ensnared the suspects was the alleged corruption in the project for procuring practical equipment for vocational students at the West Sumatra Provincial Education Office for the 2021 fiscal year with a total budget of Rp. 18 billion.

"Then for the procurement, PPTK and PPA are suspected of having ignored the procedures for determining the temporary estimated price for goods held in the project," he said.

Based on the calculation carried out by the internal auditor of the West Sumatra Prosecutor's Office, it is known that the state financial losses incurred in this case are around Rp. 5.5 billion, with details on the Maritime Sector of Rp. 472 million, the Tourism Sector of Rp. 2.13 billion, the Horticulture Sector of Rp. 1.44 billion, and the Industrial Sector of Rp. 1.46 billion.