South Sulawesi Police Name 3 Suspects Of Alleged Corruption In The Transportation Agency Project

Director of the Ditreskrimum of the South Sulawesi Police Kombes Helmi Kwarta Kusuma Putra (right) accompanied by the Head of Sub Directorate III of the South Sulawesi Police Ditreskrimsus Kompol Fadly (left)/ANTARA/Darwin Fatir.

MAKASSAR - The Directorate of Special Investigation and Crime (Ditreskrimsus) of the South Sulawesi Police has named three suspects in the alleged corruption case of road markings, procurement and installation of road transportation facilities at the South Sulawesi Provincial Transportation Service for the 2019 budget year.

"There are three suspects, one of them is a member of the council. The method is mark up," said Director of Criminal Investigation at the South Sulawesi Police, Kombes Police Helmi Kwarta Kusuma Putra when the case was released at the South Sulawesi Police Headquarters, Makassar, as reported by ANTARA, Monday, August 22.

He said the three suspects' cases had advanced to stage 1 or declared P21 (complete files) based on the results of the case title and supporting evidence according to the results of the calculation of the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP) with state losses of around Rp. 1.3 billion.

Although the suspects have been named, Helmi said the three suspects have not been arrested.

Meanwhile, Head of Sub-Directorate III of the South Sulawesi Police Ditreskrimsus Kompol Fadly explained that the alleged corruption case in question was a project from the South Sulawesi Transportation Service with a budget value of more than IDR 4 billion and found state losses of around IDR 1.3 billion.

The three suspects, each with the initials I, GK and MII. The last name is an active member of the district DPRD in South Sulawesi. Meanwhile, suspect I is one of the budget users (PA) who is known to the former Head of the South Sulawesi Transportation Service.

Then the suspect GK, always the director of the company who was used and then lent it to MII, even though the company had no right to be used for project work, especially since it had nothing to do with the work.

The three suspects were charged with Article 2 paragraph (1) subsidiary to Article 3 of the Corruption Eradication Act in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the first Criminal Code.