Corruption Of The Leles Market in Garut IDR 24 Billion Will Be Tried Immediately

Head of the Garut State Prosecutor's Office Sugeng Hariadi. (ANTARA / Feri Purnama)

JAKARTA - The Garut District Attorney has prepared six public prosecutors to handle a criminal case of corruption in the development of the Leles Market, Garut Regency, West Java, with three suspects, namely two businessmen and a civil servant of the Garut Regency Government.

"We will form a joint prosecutor team. There will be six of us, four of us, two from the West Java High Prosecutor's Office", said Chief of the Attorney General's Office of Garut Sugeng Hariadi to reporters in Garut, reported by Antara, Friday, May 7.

He said the corruption case for the construction of the Leles Market in Leles District was previously handled by the West Java High Prosecutor's team of investigators with three suspects, namely the initials PF as civil servants, then RN and AR are entrepreneurs.

The West Java High Prosecutor's Office, said Sugeng, delegated the corruption case to the Garut Prosecutor's Office for further trial proceedings at the Bandung Corruption Crime Court.

"This case from the Attorney General's Office was transferred to us, the Garut District Prosecutor's Office, along with evidence and suspects", said Sugeng.

He conveyed that the Garut District Prosecutor's Office then formed a team of prosecutors and then delegated the case files to the Bandung District Court for immediate trial.

"Our team from the prosecutor has delegated to the Corruption Court, we have delegated it", he said.

He conveyed that the Garut Prosecutor's Office was then waiting for the trial schedule for the corruption case against the construction of the Leles Market from the Bandung District Court.

"We will soon hold a trial on this case", he said.

Previously, the Leles Market began construction in October 2018 with a budget from the Garut Regency Regional Budget of IDR 24 billion.

The project, which is targeted for completion in 2019, has never been completed, even in the middle of the Leles Market building construction project, it collapsed until finally the work was stopped. The findings suggest that there was a state loss of up to IDR 600 million.