2 Karawang Transportation Agency Officials Become Suspects Of Road Light Corruption

Head of the Karawang District Attorney's Office, Syaifullah (middle/ANTARA)

The Karawang District Attorney's Office, West Java, has named two officials of the Karawang Transportation Service (Dishub) as suspects in the alleged corruption case (tipikor) in the public street lighting project (PJU) for the 2022 fiscal year.

"Based on the evidence that has been obtained by the team of investigating prosecutors in the form of witness statements, letters, instructions and experts, we have named two suspects," said Head of the Karawang District Attorney's Office, Syaifullah, quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, March 7.

Two suspects for the alleged corruption case on 22 PJU 40 watt work packages at the Karawang Transportation Service for the 2022 Fiscal Year each with the initials RG and DP.

The suspect RG in 2022 served as Secretary of the Karawang Transportation Agency, while the suspect DP served as Head of the Infrastructure Division of the Karawang Transportation Service.

In the alleged corruption case, the prosecutor's team of investigators found state losses of Rp1,052,144,600.

This is in accordance with the investigative audit report by the Public Accounting Office (KAP) on 22 direct PJU procurement work packages.

"Based on the investigative audit report by the KAP, we have secured state money of Rp. 179,256,000 to be confiscated, which was obtained from the owner of the CV or service provider at the work," he said.

Of the 22 PJU work packages, he said, the work was only carried out by one company, namely the CV Triya Family. It was determined after being appointed by the suspect DP as the Budget User Authority (KPA) or the Commitment Making Officer (PPK). Meanwhile, DP did that at RG's suggestion.

RG plays a role in regulating the company that carries out the work after the initial capital is IDR 80-85 million per package.

Meanwhile, the suspect DP as the Head of Infrastructure and KPA on 22 direct procurement work packages for the construction of PJU did not conduct a unit price review and immediately determined the RAB (cost budget plan) and HPS (self-estimated price) that existed in the previous year,

Based on the evidence and evidence that has been collected, according to Kajari, RG and DP violate Article 2 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 18 paragraph (1) of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the eradication of criminal acts of corruption as amended into Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 31 of 1999 concerning the eradication of corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code.

"Both of them face a maximum prison sentence of 20 years or a minimum imprisonment of four years and a maximum fine of Rp. 1 billion," he said.

The two suspects, after being named, said Kajari, were immediately taken to the Class IIA Karawang Prison for detention.