The Prosecutor's Office Opens Opportunities For Suspects Of Alleged Corruption In West Sumbawa Village, More Than 2 People

Illustration of alleged corruption cases. (Between-HO)

JAKARTA - The District Attorney's Office (Kejari) opens up opportunities for suspects in cases of alleged corruption in the government's capital participation in the Regional Public Company (Perusda) of West Sumbawa Regency of more than two people.

"For now, there may be two suspects, but it is possible that it will increase later. We will see from the evidence revealed in the handling process," said West Sumbawa Kejari Head Titin Herawati Utara by telephone, Monday, April 3, as reported by Antara.

Titin conveyed that this picture is in line with the previous disclosure that this investigation step leads to alleged violations of Article 2 paragraph (1) and/or Article 3 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended by Law no. 20 of 2001 in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code jo. Article 64 of the Criminal Code.

The criminal charges, he continued, were related to allegations of abuse of capital participation in Perusda West Sumbawa for the period 2016 to 2021.

By increasing the status of handling to the investigation stage, Titin hopes that his party can immediately reveal the suspect's role.

"Hopefully in the near future the investigative team will be able to reveal the role of the suspect," he said.

In the investigation process, there have been 13 people from the government, regional and private companies who gave statements to the prosecutor. Titin assured that all of them are now on the agenda of examination as witnesses.

During the management period of capital participation originating from the West Sumbawa Regency Government for the period 2016 to 2021, Perusda was recorded to have received a budget of IDR 7.2 billion. There is a distribution of profits regulated in the capital participation.

However, in the six-year period, the regional regulation was recorded to be only able to share profits with local governments amounting to Rp386 million. This nominal is far from the rules of the agreement in capital participation.