Corruption Suspect of West Sumatra Hospital Pasaman Project Returns IDR 370 million

Kejaksaan Negeri Pasaman Barat saat menerima uang pengembalian yang diduga dari suap dan gratifikasi dari dua orang tersangka pada kasus penentuan pemenang tender RSUD Pasaman Barat tahun anggaran 2018-2020/ ANTARA.

SIMPANG EMPAT - The West Pasaman District Attorney, West Sumatra received a refund of bribes and gratuities from the corruption case for the construction of the West Pasaman Regional General Hospital for the 2018-2020 fiscal year worth IDR 370 million from two suspects, AS and YE.

"Thus, so far the bribes and gratuities that have been received have reached IDR 4,270,000,000," said Head of the West Pasaman District Attorney's Office, Ginanjar Cahya Permana, at Simpang Empat, as reported by ANTARA, Friday, September 16.

Refunds of bribes and gratuities today came from two suspects, namely from the US worth IDR 350 million and from suspect YE worth IDR 20 million.

"The refund of IDR 370 million was handed over through their legal advisor Joni J David," he said.

Ginanjar said the hospital construction project was sourced from the Special Allocation Fund and 2018-2020 (multi-year) Regional Revenue and Expenditure Budget with a contract value of IDR 134,859,961,000.

The bribes and gratuities that were returned, he said, were the money given by the company that won the tender, PT. MAM Energindo to members of the West Pasaman Procurement Service Unit Working Group (Pokja).

The money was given to the Pokja so that PT. MAM Energindo could be appointed as the winner of the implementing partner for the construction of the West Pasaman Hospital in 2018-2020.

Ginanjar said that the return of bribes and gratuities was a form of good faith on the part of the suspect's family through his lawyer to return the gratuity money that the suspects had received.

The Prosecutor's Office is still waiting for the good faith of the other suspects to immediately return the money from bribes and corruption that he had enjoyed before his assets were confiscated by investigators.

"The money returned by the West Pasaman District Attorney's Investigator was immediately deposited in the prosecutor's account to be used as evidence in the corruption case in the construction of the West Pasaman Hospital," he said.

Thus, until now in the corruption case at the RSUD, his party has received a refund of more than IDR 4.2 billion.

"Previously one of the AHM suspects had also returned IDR 3.8 billion from bribes and gratuities, the LA suspect returned IDR 100 million. So the total so far has received more than IDR 4.2 billion," said Ginanjar.

The West Pasaman District Prosecutor's Office has named 11 suspects in the case of the construction of the West Pasaman Hospital with a fund ceiling of more than IDR 134 billion.

The 11 suspects are the Commitment Making Officer (PPK) with the initials NI, the liaison or third party with the initials HAM, the Director of PT MAM Energindo, the initials AA, the use of the activity budget or the former Director of the RSUD who is also the Commitment Making Officer (PPK) with the initials Y, BS, HW and Director of Construction Management initials MY.

Then the four committees US, LA, TA, and YE. Of the 11 suspects, 10 were detained and placed in the West Pasaman Police Detention Center. Meanwhile, the two suspects with the initials BS and HW were brought to the hospital or received medical treatment due to illness.

In the case of the mega project, there were also allegations of bribes worth IDR 4.5 billion, construction losses of more than IDR 20 billion, and losses in planning were also found.