RJ Lino Detained On 'Holy Friday', This Is His Case

RJ Lino detained / PR KPK

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) officially detained former President Director of PT Pelindo II Richard Joost Lino alias RJ Lino for a corruption case.

This detention was carried out on Friday, March 26, or five years after he was named a suspect in the procurement of three Quay Container Cranes (QCC) at PT Pelindo II.

The KPK was known to often detain people on Fridays. Where every suspect questioned by the KPK on Friday, most of them were detained and referred to as 'Sacred Friday'.

"For the purposes of investigation, the KPK detained the suspect for 20 days from March 26 to April 13, 2021 at the Class I Detention Center, Corruption Eradication Commission Branch," said KPK Deputy Chairman Alexander Marwata during a press conference on the detention of the suspect, Friday, March 26.

The journey of this case occurred in 2009. Alex said that at that time PT Pelindo II conducted an auction for the procurement of three QCC units with a single lift specification for three ports namely Panjang Port, Palembang and Pontianak which were subsequently declared canceled and a direct appointment was made to PT Barata Indonesia.

It's just that, the direct appointment was also canceled because there was no agreement on the price and the specifications of the goods still referred to European standards.

Subsequently, in January 2010, RJ Lino as the President Director of PT Pelindo II allegedly wrote a disposition letter ordering Operations and Engineering Director Ferialdy Noerlan. This letter is intended to conduct direct elections by inviting three companies from China, namely ZPMC, Wuxi, and HDHM, as well as a company from South Korea Doosan.

Next, in February of the same year, RJ Lino ordered his subordinates to make changes to the Decree of the Directors of PT Pelindo II concerning Basic Provisions and Procedures for the Procurement of Goods / Services in PT Pelindo II.

"The changes are intended to be able to invite directly to manufacturers abroad. The Decree of the Board of Directors of PT. Pelindo II (Persero) uses a back date so that HDHM is declared the winner of the job, "said Alex.

Furthermore, he explained, in the HDHM appointment, RJ Lino wrote the disposition of "GO FOR TWINLIFT" in the study compiled by the Director of Operations and Engineering.

"Even though the reporting of clarification and negotiation results with HDHM, it was found that HDHM and ZPMC products did not pass the technical evaluation because the goods were Chinese standards and had never exported QCC outside China," he explained.

Continuing to March 2010, RJ Lino then ordered his subordinates to conduct a technical evaluation of the QCC Twin Lift HDHM. In addition, he also gave a disposition to the Director of Commercial and Business Development of PT Pelindo II Saptono R. Irianto to conduct an operational review with the conclusion that the QCC Twin Lift is not ideal for Palembang Port and Pontianak Port.

Regarding this procurement, RJ Lino allegedly signed the payment document without the Finance Director's signature. The amount of down payment that was paid at that time reached USD24 million which was disbursed gradually.

In addition, the signing of the contract between PT Pelindo II and HDHM was carried out, the auction process was still ongoing and even after the contract was signed, negotiations were still underway to reduce specifications and prices so as not to exceed the Owner Estimate (OE) value.

Meanwhile, regarding the QCC that was sent to the three ports, it was carried out without a complete commission test. In fact, this test should be a mandatory requirement before handing over the goods.

As for the overall contract price of this QCC, a total of 15,445,000 US dollars consisting of 5,344,000 US dollars for transport aircraft at Panjang Port, 4,920,000 US dollars for transport aircraft at the Port of Palembang, and 5,290,000 US dollars. Union for transport aircraft located at Pontianak Port.

In this alleged corruption case, the KPK has finally obtained data on alleged financial losses in the maintenance of the QCC unit amounting to US $ 22,824.94.

"Meanwhile, for the construction and delivery of goods for the 3 QCC units, the BPK did not calculate the exact value of the State's losses because evidence of HDHM's real expenditure on the construction and delivery of 3 QCC units was not obtained," said Alex.

In addition, the KPK also obtained data from experts from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) that the cost of goods manufactured by QCC was cheaper. The QCC unit at the Port of Palembang is actually only worth US $ 2,996,123; 3,356,742 US dollars for the Long QCC; and US $ 3,314,520 for the Pontianak QCC.

As a result of his actions, RJ Lino was later suspected of violating Article 2 paragraph (1) and / or Article 3 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Corruption as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning Amendments to Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) 1 of the Criminal Code.