Southeast Sulawesi Prosecutor's Office Detains Head Of Transportation And UHO Lecturers Suspected Of Corruption

PHOTO BETWEEN

KENDARI - The Southeast Sulawesi High Prosecutor's Office detained the Head of the Southeast Sulawesi Transportation Service (Kadishub) with the initials HH and a lecturer at Halu Oleo University (UHO) with the initials LA. Both are suspects in the corruption case of the traffic engineering study project in Wakatobi Regency.

Head of the Legal Information Section of the Southeast Sulawesi Prosecutor's Office, Dody, said that the two suspects were detained after investigators handed over the case files of the two suspects to the Public Prosecutor (JPU) this afternoon.

"(The file has been) in phase II of submission from investigators to the prosecutor. HH and LA have been delivered to the Kendari Class IIA Rutan," he said, quoted by Antara, Wednesday, July 28.

Dody conveyed that the two suspects were taken to the Kendari Class IIA Rutan and were detained by the Public Prosecutor for 20 days. At that time, the Public Prosecutor will submit the case files of the two suspects to the Kendari Corruption Court (Tipikor).

"There is no definite schedule for when the trial will take place. It was only today that it was handed over from investigators to prosecutors," said Dody.

It is known that the two suspects were charged with Article 5 paragraph (1) letter a or Article 5 paragraph (1) letter b or Article 13 of Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning Corruption Crimes.

Both were named suspects in March 2021 on suspicion of corruption in a traffic engineering study in Wakatobi Regency.

When they were detained by investigators, they were not detained. HH and LA underwent status as city detainees before their case files were submitted to the public prosecutor.

The traffic engineering study project in Wakatobi Regency was carried out by the Southeast Sulawesi Transportation Service with the Halu Oleo University (UHO) Research and Community Service Institute (LPPM) in 2017.

The Prosecutor's Office confirmed that the project had been audited by the Southeast Sulawesi Inspectorate and the Southeast Sulawesi Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP).

The Southeast Sulawesi Inspectorate has audited the documents to see budget irregularities in the execution of the project. It was found that there was a deviation of Rp1.1 billion in the work on the project.

"The results of the BPKP audit found that there was a state loss of Rp1.147 billion," said Dody.