Former president director of state-owned port operator Pelindo II, RJ Lino, will challenge the results of a Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) report that have been used by the National Police to launch a fresh graft probe into his actions.

One of Lino'€™s lawyers, Fredrich Yunadi, said that the BPK had violated its code of ethics by conducting a clandestine investigative audit at the police'€™s request. Although the audit results were submitted by the BPK on Monday, it was police investigators who revealed some of the details the next day.

'€œThe BPK has violated the ethics code because in the February 2015 audit it conducted, it declared that there were no state losses and then it secretly announced that [Pelindo II] had caused Rp 37.9 billion [US$2.7 million] in state losses. That was a total loss, meaning that the items procured were useless. However, in reality, [the cranes] were functional and fully made use of and brought in Rp 3.8 billion in a year,'€ he said after joining Lino during his witness questioning at the National Police headquarters in South Jakarta.

The National Police are currently investigating an alleged graft case connected to the 2012 procurement of 10 mobile cranes for nine of Pelindo II'€™s ports. Investigators have come to the conclusion that the procurement led to state losses as no cranes were operational when they checked.

Currently, only Pelindo II'€™s operations and technical director Ferialdy Nurlan has been named a suspect.

Fredrich said that Lino'€™s legal team was currently preparing to file a suit against the BPK at the State Administrative Court (PTUN).

Lino also filed a report with the agency'€™s ethics council against the members who signed off on the report.

He also filed a complaint against the BPK to the ombudsman.

'€œWe have also filed a complaint at the ombudsman and we will also file a police report over [the BPK'€™s] violation of the Criminal Code and the Electronic Information and Transaction [ITE] Law by publishing slander electronically,'€ he said.

Lino himself said that during his five-hour questioning at the National Police headquarters, investigators handling the case were silent about alleged state losses.

'€œI have already submitted everything related to accounts and there was no problem,'€ he said.

Meanwhile, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said on Thursday that it would detain Lino after questioning him as a suspect on Friday in its investigation into the procurement of fixed crane-type loading and unloading equipment worth US$20 million in 2012.

The antigraft body has often decided to lock up graft suspects soon after questioning them on Fridays.

'€œWe will make the decision [to detain him] tomorrow. However, the faster [he is detained] the better,'€ KPK deputy chairman Saut Situmorang told The Jakarta Post on Thursday.

The KPK expects to lock up Lino until his upcoming trial at the Jakarta Corruption Court where he will be tried for his alleged role directly procuring equipment from an unqualified company, namely Chinese company Wuxi Huadong Heavy Machinery (HDHM), without proper procedure.

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