Former Director General Of Pertaminan Luhur Budi Djatmiko Becomes A Corruption Suspect In Land Purchase, State Loss Of IDR 348 Billion.

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The Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police has named the former General Director of PT Pertamina, Luhur Budi Djatmiko, as a suspect in corruption in the purchase of land at the Rasuna Epicentrum Kuningan Complex, South Jakarta. In this case, state losses were reduced to Rp348 billion.

"LBD as General Director of PT. Pertamina (Persero) from 2012 to 2014 as a suspect in a case of alleged corruption related to land purchases," said Deputy Director of Corruption Crimes at Bareskrim Polri, Kombes Arief Adiharsa to VOI, Thursday, November 7.

The alleged corruption case began with the preparation of a budget in the Work Plan and Company Budget (RKAP) of PT. Pertamina (Persero) in 2013 with a value of IDR 2.07 trillion.

The budget is intended to buy land planned for the construction of the Pertamina Energy Tower (PET) building as an office for PT. Pertamina and all its subsidiaries in the Rasuna Epicentrum area, Kuningan, South Jakarta

Then, the purchase of land was carried out from June 2013 to February 2014. The total is 4 lots consisting of 23 plots of land with a total area of 48,279 square meters from PT. SP and PT. BSU.

"The purchase of land at a price of Rp. 35,000,000 square meters is outside the tax and the Notary-PPAT services, which totals Rp. 1,682,035,000,000," he said.

However, the process of purchasing land carried out by PT. Pertamina (Persero), is suspected of having committed an unlawful act or not underlying the applicable provisions and regulations.

Thus, there was a state loss based on the limiting of prices and expenses or payments that should not be, namely assets in the form of roads belonging to the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government covering an area of 2,553 square meters.

"From the series of work processes, it resulted in state financial losses of Rp348,691,016,976," said Arief.

Meanwhile, the handling of the alleged corruption case was based on a police report (LP) registered with the number LP/250/II/2018/Bareskrim, dated February 19, 2018.

On that basis, 84 witnesses and 5 experts have been examined. Then, collect hundreds of items of evidence.

"The collection of related documents and confiscation of 612 documents," said Arief.

So, based on the results of the case title Luhur Budi Djatmiko was named a suspect. Investigators suspect it with Article 2 paragraph (1) and/or Article 3 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption, as amended in Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code.