North Sumatra Regional Police Determines 5 Suspects In Used Antigen Test Cases, There Is The Manager Of Kimia Farma

The North Sumatra Regional Police named five people as suspects in the case of using a used antigen rapid test kit at Kualanamu International Airport, Deli Serdang. (AMONG)

MEDAN - The North Sumatra Regional Police named five people as suspects in the case of using a used antigen rapid test kit at Kualanamu International Airport, Deli Serdang.

The North Sumatra Regional Police Chief Inspector General Panca Putra, when exposing the case at the North Sumatra Regional Police Headquarters in Medan, said the identities of the suspects had the initials PM, DP, SP, MR, and RN.

One of the suspects, namely the initials PM, is the Manager of Kimia Farma Laboratory Medan which is on RA Kartini Street.

Meanwhile, the other four suspects are contract employees and casual daily laborers at Kimia Farma's office.

The four suspects are said to have coordinated with the suspect PM who also serves as the Head of the Kimia Farma Diagnostic Service at Kualanamu Airport.

"The perpetrators who were revealed were proven to have recycled the sticks used for the rapid test for the COVID-19 antigen", said Inspector General Panca, quoted by Antara, Thursday, April 29.

The suspects are subject to multiple articles, namely Article 98 paragraph (3) in conjunction with Article 196 of Law Number 36 the Year 2009 concerning Health, with a maximum imprisonment of 10 years and a maximum fine of IDR 1 billion.

Then, Article 8 letters (b), (d), and (e) in conjunction with article 62 paragraph (1) of Law Number 8 of 1999 concerning Consumer Protection with a maximum imprisonment of 5 five years and a fine of IDR 2 billion.