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Police raid City Council speaker's office in UPS graft case
Police on Thursday raided the office of Jakarta City Council Speaker Prasetio Edi Marsudi in connection with the investigation into alleged corruption in the procurement of interruptible power supply (UPS) units for schools in 2014.
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Police officers raid the office of City Council speaker Prasetio Edi Marsudi on Thursday. The investigators seized a computer used by previous City Council speaker Ferrial Sofyan. (kompas.com/Kurnia Sari Aziza )
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olice on Thursday raided the office of Jakarta City Council speaker Prasetio Edi Marsudi in connection with the investigation into alleged corruption in the procurement of interruptible power supply (UPS) units for schools in 2014.
Prasetio confirmed the raid by investigators from the National Police’s criminal and detective division (Bareskrim), saying that the police officers had seized a computer formerly used by former City Council speaker Ferrial Sofyan.
“The raid by Bareskrim’s investigators was related to the UPS case. In my office, there was a computer that was used by former city council speaker Ferrial Sofyan,” said Prasetio as quoted by kompas.com.
Seven police investigators examined Prasetio’s office from 2 p.m. to 3.20 p.m., said the speaker, adding that he never used the computer, which had been in the office since 2012.
The police have named five suspects in the UPS case, including two councilors, Fahmi Zulfikar of the Hanura Party, and M. Firmansyah a Democratic Party councilor during the 2009 to 2014 period.
The three others are Alex Usman, the former infrastructure division head at the West Jakarta Education Office, Zaenal Soleman, the former head of the Central Jakarta Education Office, and Harry Low, CEO of PT Offistarindo Adhiprima, the UPS supplier.
The UPS procurement was included in the revised 2014 city budget at a price of Rp 6 billion (US$433,839) per unit for each school, with a total budget of Rp 300 billion. Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja "Ahok" Purnama previously said the procurement had not been discussed when the budgetary team debated a budget document known as the General Budget Policies and Provisional Budget Ceiling and Priorities (KUA-PPAS). (bbn)
