REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- North Sumatra's High Prosecutor's Office intelligence has managed to arrest convict Dr Iskandar named a fugitive in a corruption case. He asked for unofficial payment to administer meningitis vaccine to prospective minor hajj (Umrah) pilgrims in Pekanbaru.

"Corruption convicts, on behalf of Dr Iskandar, were caught by the North Sumatra District Prosecutor's intelligence team in Medan City," Pekanbaru District Prosecutor Office's Intelligence Section Chief Ahmad Fuady stated here on Thursday.

Fuady revealed that Iskandar, 52, earlier head of the Pekanbaru Class II Port Health Office, was arrested on Wednesday night (Aug 29) at around 6:50 p.m. Western Indonesian Time from his residence at the Taman Umar Asri Complex Block B 10 Glugur Darat I Family, East Medan District, Medan City. Iskandar was sentenced to four years imprisonment in a corruption case for collecting unofficial fees for administering Meningitis vaccine to thousands of prospective Umrah pilgrims at the Pekanbaru Class II Health Office from 2011 to 2012.

This case has a permanent legal bearing based on the Supreme Court Decision Number: 582.K/Pid.Sus/2014, dated May 21, 2014. In its ruling, the Supreme Court on May 21, 2014, has awarded a four-year prison term to Iskandar and a fine of Rp200 million or a month in prison.

He was also ordered to pay a replacement fee of Rp14.8 million or a month's imprisonment. Fuady noted that Iskandar was currently being taken to Pekanbaru.

Iskandar had earlier thrice failed to honor the summons of the Pekanbaru Prosecutor office without any reason. In early 2018, the Prosecutor's office finally placed him on the List of Wanted Person (DPO) along with his subordinates, including Dr. Mariane Donse Br Tobing, who had been arrested in Tarutung in July 2018.

"Based on the statement of the convicted persons, so far, he moved from Batam and then to Medan. He worked as a doctor at the Estomihi Hospital in Medan at the Mother Clinic and taught at the STIKES Senior Medan," he explained.

Iskandar committed the acts along with Suwignyo and Mariane during the January-December 2011 period and the January-July 2012 period. Suwignyo had served a four-year prison term.

During that time, Iskandar was not detained since he fell ill following a traffic accident, while Mariane was pregnant. After recovering, instead of meeting the prosecutor's call to serve sentence, the two civil servants were on the run.

This corruption case took place when Iskandar, who was then head of the Health Office, delegated authority to Mariane and Suwignyo to charge 12,701 prospective Umrah pilgrims in Pekanbaru for administering meningitis vaccine. In practice, the mark-up of the official costs of injecting vaccines set by Indonesia's Ministry of Health amounted to Rp20 thousand to Rp550 thousand per person.

The panel of judges said the convicts were found guilty of violating Article 12, letter (e) of Law no. 20/2001 on amendments to Law no. 31/1999 on Eradication of Corruption, Article 55, paragraph (1) 1st of Juncto Article 64, paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code.

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