NTB - The West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati) has confirmed that it will continue to investigate the corruption case in the procurement of corn seeds in 2017. The fraudulent practice was recorded to have cost the state Rp27.3 billion.
"Keep going. Still investigating now," said NTB Attorney General's Office Spokesperson Efrien Saputera in Mataram, NTB, Friday, May 12, confiscated by Antara.
He also confirmed that the investigation of the corruption case, which had previously gone through the trial process by imposing a sentence on the four defendants in accordance with the issuance of letter number: Print-06/N.2/Fd.1/04/2023 dated April 14, 2023.
"Yes, that's the warrant for the start of the investigation. So, it is still in the process of collecting data and information material," he said.
The corn seed procurement program for farmers in NTB cost Rp48.25 billion. The government divides this procurement program into two stages of work.
In the first phase, with a budget of 17.25 billion for the procurement of 480 tons of corn seeds, PT Sinta Agro Mandiri (SAM) emerged as the executor.
In the second phase, PT Wahana Banu Sejahtera (WBS) was carried out with a budget of IDR 31 billion for the procurement of 840 tons of corn seeds.
Losses of Rp27.3 billion also appeared based on the results of the NTB BPKP audit. According to the audit details, in the first phase of procurement by PT SAM, a loss of Rp15.43 billion appeared. Meanwhile, by PT WBS Rp11.92 billion.
With this reference, the NTB Prosecutor's Office named four suspects, namely the Head of the NTB Distanbun Husnul Fauzi, the commitment-making official (PPK) I Wayan Wikanaya, the Director of PT SAM Aryanto Prametu, and the Director of PT WBS Lalu Ikhwanul Hubby.
Furthermore, from the trial process, the court judge has stated that the four were proven to have violated Article 2 Paragraph (1) of the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 20/2001 concerning Amendments to Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 31/1999 concerning Eradication of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 Paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code in accordance with the contents of the primary indictment.
The four of them are now inmates who are serving criminal sentences at the Class IIA Mataram Prison.
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For Husnul Fauzi, he was sentenced to 9 years in prison along with I Wayan Wikanaya. For the Director of PT SAM, Aryanto Prametu served a sentence of 8 years in prison along with the Director of PT WBS Lalu IkhwanulHubby.
From the handling of this case, the prosecutor's office has also succeeded in saving state losses with a value of Rp. 10.5 billion. The prosecutor's office received this from the Director of PT SAM Aryanto Prametu worth Rp. 7.5 billion and the Director of PT WBS Lalu Ikhwanul Joby worth Rp. 3 billion.
Both of them recovered state losses when the prosecutor's office handled this case in the investigation stage.
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