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The former president director of state-owned electricity company PLN, Dahlan Iskan, has accepted his status as graft suspect in connection with a central power transformer project worth Rp 1
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he former president director of state-owned electricity company PLN, Dahlan Iskan, has accepted his status as graft suspect in connection with a central power transformer project worth Rp 1.06 trillion (US$79.14 million), as he was in charge of the project.
'I accept with full responsibility my being named a suspect by the Jakarta Prosecutor's Office. I've decided to take responsibility because in my capacity as project leader, I am responsible for problems linked to the project,' he said after undergoing questioning at the Jakarta Prosecutor's Office on Friday.
Dahlan has been held responsible for financial leakages in the project. According to investigators at the prosecutor's office, PLN spent Rp 1.06 trillion for the procurement of power transformers and the construction of 21 central power transformers in Java, Bali and West Nusa Tenggara in 2011-2013, but three of the power transformers were broken and 12 others did not function well.
Dahlan said he would re-examine the case and the project so that he could account for his role.
Despite being named a suspect, Dahlan was not arrested as he had been cooperative in the investigation into the case.
Attorney General's Office (AGO) spokesman Tony Tribagus Spontana said on Saturday that the AGO had received a letter from immigration authorities forbidding Dahlan to travel overseas.
Dahlan is likely also to be named a suspect in the fictitious farmland project in Ketapang, West Kalimantan, because he led the project financed by several state-owned enterprises when he was minister of state enterprises from 2012 to 2014. (rms)(+++)
