Jakarta, Beritasatu.com – When the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigated the Covid-19 Social Assistance corruption case at the Ministry of Social Affairs, the Attorney General’s Office did not want to lose. Investigators at the Junior Attorney General for Special Crimes are now uncovering alleged corruption in the supply of AIDS and STD drugs at the Ministry of Health (Kemkes).
The Team of Investigators at the Directorate of Investigation at the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) at the Attorney General’s Office, Thursday (17/12/2020) again examined two witnesses regarding the handling of cases of alleged corruption in the provision of AIDS and STD drugs at the Ministry of Health.
The witnesses examined were former Inspector IV of the Ministry of Health in 2015 Wayan Suarthana and Inspector General of the Ministry of Health 2015-2018 Purwadi.
“The examination of the witnesses was carried out in order to find legal facts and collect evidence about the crimes allegedly committed in the process of supplying AIDS and STD drugs,” said Head of the Criminal Investigation Unit Leonard Eben Ezer Simanjuntak at the Attorney General’s Office, Thursday (17/12/2020).
The cases of providing AIDS and STD drugs currently being investigated are the development of previous cases. The investigation of this case took place in 2016.
At that time, the Directorate General of Public Medicines and Health Supplies at the Directorate General of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices at the Ministry of Health conducted a public post-qualification auction for the procurement of AIDS and STD drugs in two stages. Phase I was held in May 2016. Meanwhile, stage II was October 2016 with a budget ceiling of IDR 826,699,232,000.
Types of AIDS and STD drugs that are provided are imported drugs. In the auction stage I, the winner was PT Kimia Farma Trading & Distributor (a subsidiary of PT. Kimia Farma (Persero) Tbk) with a contract of IDR 211,649,987,736.
Meanwhile, in the second stage auction, the winner was PT Indofarma Global Medika (a subsidiary of PT Indofarma) with a contract price of Rp. 85,197,750,000. In the compilers of the HPS and technical specifications it is suspected that irregularities have occurred. It is suspected that no price survey was conducted.
Law enforcement officials have several times uncovered corruption cases in this ministry. Among them were cases of procurement of medical devices for crisis response centers at the Ministry of Health in 2007, corruption in the procurement of medical devices for bird flu prevention in 2006.
Then, the corruption case in the procurement of HIV / AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) equipment and materials for the 2015 fiscal year in the Work Unit of the Directorate of Contagious Disease Control at the Ministry of Health’s Directorate General of Disease Control and Environmental Health and a number of other cases.
Source: BeritaSatu.com
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