North Sumatra Prosecutor's Office Detains 5 Corruption Suspects For Kualanamu Airport Project

Five suspects have been detained by the Special Crime Investigators of the North Sumatra High Prosecutor's Office. (ANTARA/Aris Rinaldi Nasution)

The North Sumatra High Prosecutor's Office has detained five suspects in the alleged corruption of the troli management system procurement project, smart airport, smartparking of Angkasa Pura II Airport Airport, Kualanamu International Airport Branch Office, Deli Serdang, in 2017.

"The five suspects detained, namely the initials AD, are retired PT Angkasa Pura II Pusat and ER as Manager of Electronic & IT PT Angkasa Pura II Kualanamu," said Head of Legal Information at the North Sumatra Prosecutor's Office Adre Wanda Ginting in Medan as reported by ANTARA, Thursday, September 26.

Other suspects, the initials EB as Engineering & Facility Quality Assurance PT Angkasa Pura II, LS as Manager of Electronic Facility & IT PT Angkasa Pura II, and FM as an employee of PT Angkasa Pura Solusi.

The reason for the detention, said Adre, was because investigators had obtained two sufficient pieces of evidence, then the suspect was feared to run away, damage or destroy evidence and repeat the crime.

After a medical examination, four of the five suspects were detained for the next 20 days from September 26 to October 15, 2024 at the Medan Class I State Detention Center (Rutan).

"Meanwhile, the suspect FM was detained at the Class I Women's Detention Center in Tanjung Gusta, Medan," he added.

This corruption case began in 2017 when PT Angkasa Pura II carried out procurement of smartairport activities worth IDR 34.3 billion and was carried out by PT Angkasa Pura Solusi which was subcontractored to six companies to carry out 12 jobs.

"However, over time, the work done was not on time and received a warning from PT Angkasa Pura II until finally the work was not completed on time and did not meet specifications or default," said Adre.

As a result of the actions of the suspects, it was found that there was an incident of a criminal act of corruption, namely an unlawful act with a contract value of Rp. 34.3 billion.

The amount of the contact is suspected to have resulted in state financial losses of Rp7.11 billion based on the calculation of an independent accountant.

"The five suspects are subject to 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 the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 Paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code," said Adre.