Charged With Corruption Case, Ex-Chancellor Of North Sumatran State Islamic University Tried At Medan Corruption Court

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MEDAN - The trial of the alleged corruption case in the construction of an integrated lecture building for the State Islamic University North Sumatra campus II with an indictment agenda was held at the Medan Corruption Court.

The trial was held after experiencing two delays. However, of the 3 defendants, only 2 people attended this trial. A defendant did not attend because he was still sick.

The two defendants who were tried were the former Chancellor of North Sumatra State Islamic University Saidurahman and Joni Siswoyo, the Director of PT Multikarya Bisnis Perkasa as partners. Meanwhile, the defendant Syahruddin was unable to attend because he was still sick.

In the indictment which was read out alternately by public prosecutors, Robetson Pakpakhan and Hendri Edison, it was stated that this case began in the 2018 fiscal year, State Islamic University North Sumatra received a budget based on the Budget Implementation List (DIPA) Number: SP-DIPA-025.04.2.424007/2018 for the construction of an integrated lecture building.

The funds are sourced from APBN funds for State Sharia Securities (SBSN) with a nominal budget ceiling of IDR 50,000,000,000.

It was also revealed that former Chancellor Saidurahman requested that the tender committee for the construction of the Integrated Lecture Building Campus II State Islamic University North Sumatra win PT Multikarya Bisnis Perkasa to carry out the project.

"That to realize this, witness Marudut met the Chair of the Pokja, witness Rizki Anggraini asked for his help to cooperate so that in the auction process, the Pokja committee won the PT Multikarya Bisnis Perkara company which will carry out the construction of the Integrated Lecture Building", said Public Prosecutor Robetson, Monday, 9 August.

Long story short, the Development Working Group Committee finally won PT Multikarya Perkasa with a contract value of IDR 44,973,352,461. However, recently, the construction of the building has stalled and has the potential to harm state finances, according to the results of the audit of state losses, which amounted to IDR 10.3 billion.

"The defendant's actions are regulated and subject to criminal sanctions in Article 2 paragraph (1) and subsidiary Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31/1999 in conjunction with Law Number 20/2001 concerning Amendments to Law Number 31/1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) 1 of the Criminal Code", explained the Public Prosecutor.

While being met after the trial, Public Prosecutor Robetson said that the defendant Saidurahman was charged with receiving IDR 2 billion in the implementation of this project.

"As we heard earlier, Mr. Saidurahman as the rector and as a budget user in the 2018 development project was charged with receiving IDR 2 billion in money in the implementation of the project development", concluded Robetson.