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View all search resultsN. Sumatra prosecutors detain two BPN officials for selling land to Ciputra Land
Both suspects are being detained for 20 days after two pieces of evidence were found.
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Prosecutors from the North Sumatra Prosecutor's Office detained former National Land Agency (BPN) North Sumatra regional office head Askani and BPN Deli Serdang office head Rahim Lubis on Tuesday for their alleged involvement in a corruption case in Medan. Both suspects allegedly misused their authority by approving the conversion of rights-to-use (HGU) certificates to rights-to-build (HGB) certificates for PT Nusa Dua Propertindo (NDP), a subsidiary of state-owned plantation PT Perkebunan Nusantara I. (tempo.co/North Sumatra Kejati)
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he North Sumatra Prosecutor’s Office detained two suspects from local offices of the National Land Agency (BPN) for transferring 8,077 hectares of land owned by state-owned plantations PT Perkebunan Nusantara (PTPN) I to private developer PT Ciputra Land in Deli Serdang regency.
Askani, head of BPN’s North Sumatra regional office from 2022 to 2024, and Rahim Lubis, head of BPN’s Deli Serdang office from 2023 to 2025, were detained by prosecutors on Tuesday.
The prosecutor’s Assistant for Special Crimes (Aspidsus) Mochamad Jeffry said both suspects would be kept at the Tanjung Gusta Detention Center in Medan for 20 days starting on Tuesday.
He said that both suspects were detained based on a directive from the prosecutors.
“Both suspects are detained for 20 days for the first phase, after investigators […] found two [pieces of] evidence,” Jeffry told reporters on Tuesday evening.
Jeffery said investigators had questioned dozens of witnesses in the corruption case involving the sale of PTPN I asset to PT Nusa Dua Propertindo (NDP) through an operational cooperation agreement (KSO) with PT Ciputra Land.
“We have questioned 63 witnesses,” he said.
