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West Sumatra Prosecutor's Office (ANTARA)

The prosecutor's investigator will forcibly summon the suspect in the alleged corruption case of government capital investment to the West Sumbawa Regency Regional Public Company (Perusda) with the initials EK.

"We will summon the person concerned if until the third summons he does not come," said Head of the Intelligence Section of the West Sumbawa District Attorney's Office, Rasyid Yuliansyah, quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, August 16.

The prosecutor's office planned this considering that suspect EK had not been present to fulfill the summons since the beginning of the investigation before the determination of the suspect.

"We have been summoned since the beginning of the investigation, but he never came. That's why we are currently flying back to call the second with his status as a suspect," he said.

The first summons for EK as a suspect took place when investigators detained another suspect, namely the Director of Perusda West Sumbawa with the initials SA, Monday (14/8) night.

In addition to still trying to get the suspect to appear before the prosecutor through a summons procedure, the prosecutor's office through an intelligence function conducted a search in the field by issuing a wanted list (DPO) for EK suspects.

"We will look anywhere, including involving an intelligence team and a team of soweds (arrest fugitives) from the NTB Attorney General's Office and the Indonesian Attorney General's Office," he said.

Suspect EK in this case is the director of a private company that acts as a partner of Perusda West Sumbawa.

One of the pieces of evidence that states EK and SA as suspects is related to the discovery of indications of unlawful acts and the emergence of potential state losses in managing capital investment funds worth IDR 2.1 billion.

Based on data pocketed by investigators, the company with the initials PAM belonging to suspect EK in 2016 received periodic capital participation from Perusda West Sumbawa amounting to Rp650 million.

Then, in 2017 there was a return on capital from EK's company with a total of IDR 450 million. Continued in 2018, PAM companies again received periodic capital participation of IDR 1.1 billion.

In 2020, the regional regulation was revealed to have borrowed from PAM companies amounting to Rp. 100 million. Of the total capital participation between the regional regulation and PAM, a loss of Rp. 2.1 billion emerged.

With the construction of these findings, investigators named both of them as suspects with the alleged management of capital participation that was not in accordance with the provisions of the cooperation agreement.

The capital is given first to the PAM company, while the cooperation agreement is made long ago from the date of the capital is given.

In addition to the alleged error, it is strongly suspected that the PAM company did not carry out its obligations according to the cooperation agreement.

By finding indications of such a violation of the law, investigators apply the allegations of Article 2 paragraph (1) and/or Article 3 of Law Number 31 of 1999 as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code in conjunction with Article 64 of the Criminal Code.

From the determination of this suspect, the prosecutor's investigator made the detention of SA by entrusting the person concerned at the West Sumbawa Police Detention Center.