West Papua Police Seize Assets Of Three KONI Corruption Suspects, Luxury Cars To Land

Illustration of corruption (ANTARA)

MANOKWARI - West Papua Regional Police (Polda) have confiscated a number of assets belonging to three suspects with the initials DI, AW and LS in the alleged corruption case of grant funds from the Indonesian National Sports Committee (KONI) West Papua Province.

West Papua Regional Police Chief Inspector General Daniel Tahi Monang Silitonga said the confiscated assets included houses, land, vehicles, and other valuables obtained by the three suspects were from the proceeds of crimes of misuse of grant funds.

"We have frozen several assets belonging to three suspects and confiscated them because the assets were obtained from the proceeds of the crime," said Daniel Silitonga, quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, June 13.

In addition, he said, police investigators continue to investigate the flow of grant funds that have been misused by the suspects.

The effort intended that state losses due to criminal acts of corruption of Rp32.07 billion could be returned to the state.

Currently, investigators from the West Papua Police Criminal Investigation Directorate are still waiting for a report from the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK).

If there are indications of suspicious transactions, it is possible that there will be new suspects in the West Papua KONI grant case.

"We are waiting for the results of the PPATK to be developed again, it can be read all the payment transactions," he said.

The Regional Police Chief confirmed that the case files of the three suspects were immediately transferred to the West Papua High Prosecutor's Office, which was then continued in court.

For this reason, police investigators continue to coordinate with the prosecutor's office so that the process of transferring cases and suspects runs according to expectations.

"We are trying to transfer the case files of the three suspects along with the evidence as soon as possible," explained the Kapolda.

The Director of Criminal Investigation at the West Papua Police, Police Commissioner Sonny MN Tampubolon, explained that the flow of grant funds received by West Papua KONI came from the West Papua Provincial Budget in 2019, 2020, and 2021 as much as Rp227.49 billion.

This amount consists of an allocation of IDR 60 billion in 2019, then an increase to IDR 99.9 billion in 2020, and IDR 67.5 billion allocated in 2021.

"The results of the audit found state losses for the misuse of grants managed by KONI of Rp32.07 billion," said Sonny Tampubolon.

The police charged the three suspects with Article 2 and Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 31 of 1999 as amended by Law Number 20 of 2021, as well as the formulation of Article 3 and Article 5 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Prevention and Eradication of the Crime of Money Laundering (TPPU).

Previously, the Corruption Crime Sub-Directorate Team of the West Papua Police Criminal Investigation Directorate confiscated a number of documents from the results of searches at the homes of suspects AW and LS on June 7, 2023.

"For the suspect DI, our team has just conducted a search of his office at the KONI West Papua office," said Head of Sub-Directorate for Tipidkor of the West Papua Police Criminal Investigation Directorate AKBP Aries Dwi Cahyanto.

He explained that the documents confiscated from the search site were allegedly closely related to the alleged corruption case of West Papua KONI grant funds during three budget items.

"All documents (evidence of instructions) related to KONI activities," he said.