Investigating The Corruption Of The CSRT Project, Ex-BIG Officials Called By The KPK

Illustrated (Irfan Meidianto / VOI)

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) summoned a number of former officials at the Information and Geospatial Agency (BIG).

They were summoned in an effort to investigate corruption in the procurement of High Resolution Satellite Imagery (CSRT) in 2015, which was carried out by BIG and LAPAN.

Witnesses who were summoned were Deputy IGD BIG 2014-2019 Dody Sukmayadi, PPK IGD BIG I 2015 Fajar Triady M, Sestama BIG 20142-2019 Titiek Suparwati, and KPA BIG Nurwadjedi.

"The four witnesses will be examined for the LRS suspect (Lissa Rukmi Utari)," said Acting KPK spokesperson for prosecution Ali Fikri in a written statement, Monday, April 19.

It is not yet known about the examination material that will be carried out on the four of them. However, their statements are needed to complete the investigation files for Lissa, who is the President Commissioner of PT Ametis Indogeo Prakarsa (AIP).

Previously reported, in the CSRT corruption case at the Geospatial Information Agency (BIG) in collaboration with LAPAN, the KPK initially named two suspects, namely Priyadi Kardono (PRK) and Muchamad Muchlis (MUM).

Priyadi Kardono is the Head of the Geospatial Information Agency (BIG) for the 2014-2016 period, while Muchamad Muchlis is the Head of the Center for Aerospace Technology Utilization (Kapusfatekgan) LAPAN for the 2013-2015 period.

Furthermore, the KPK appointed the President Commissioner of PT Ametis Indogeo Prakarsa (AIP), Lissa Rukmi Utari as a suspect in the alleged corruption case in the procurement of High Resolution Satellite Imagery (CSRT) at the Geospatial Information Agency (BIG) in collaboration with LAPAN.

He is suspected of having a meeting with the Head of the Geospatial Information Agency for 2014-2016 Priyadi Kardono, and the Head of the Center for Aerospace Technology Utilization (Kapusfatekgan) LAPAN in 2013-2015 Muchamad Muchlis.

This meeting then resulted in an engineering agreement on various Terms of Reference (TOR) documents as the basis for the implementation of this project. In addition, the KPK also suspected that Lissa had received payment in full and that she was also active in collecting payments without complete required documents. Several price payment documents were changed.