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KPK names South Kalimantan governor bribery suspect
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A Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator shows money seized in a series of arrests in South Kalimantan during a press briefing at the KPK headquarters in Jakarta on Oct. 8, 2024. The antigraft body arrested eight suspects in the operation, including provincial Public Works and Housing Agency official Yulianti Erlynah, and has named South Kalimantan Governor Sahbirin Noor a suspect in the case. (Antara/Indrianto Eko Suwarso)
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he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has named South Kalimantan Governor Sahbirin Noor a suspect in a bribery case pertaining to several infrastructure projects handled by the province’s public works and spatial planning agency.
The antigraft body announced its decision to name Sahbirin a suspect in the case on Tuesday evening, two days after investigators arrested eight people in South Kalimantan in relation to the case.
Sahbirin allegedly received 5 percent kickbacks from each of three infrastructure projects in the province: a Rp 23 billion (US$1.5 million) soccer field and a Rp 9 billion swimming pool in the province’s integrated sports complex, as well as a Rp 22 billion project to build an integrated vehicle document registration center (samsat).
Investigators believe several officials at the South Kalimantan Public Works and Spatial Planning Agency, including human settlements director Yulianti Erlynah, rigged the tender process so that local businesspeople Sugeng Wahyudi and Andi Susanto would win the projects.
“After they were selected for the projects, there was a 2.5 percent fee for the projects’ commitment maker official [PPK] and another 5 percent for Sahbirin,” KPK deputy chair Nurul Ghufron said in a press briefing in Jakarta on Tuesday.
Investigators received a tip on Oct. 3 that Wahyudi had handed over Rp 1 billion, which was allegedly the fee for the governor, in cash to Yulianti at the instruction of provincial Public Works and Spatial Planning head Ahmad Solhan.
Ahmad then allegedly ordered Yulianti and her driver to bring the money to the agency’s office to be given to Solhan’s driver, who later sent the money to Ahmad, a treasurer for a local Quran study group who is suspected of pooling illicit money for the governor.
