Mataram Prosecutor's Office Inventory Corruption Convicted Assets To Auction State Compensation Of IDR 3.1 Billion

Mataram District Attorney's Office. ANTARA/Dhimas B.P.

The Mataram District Attorney (Kejari), West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), has inventoried Ruslan's valuable assets, convicted of corruption in the self-help housing stimulant assistance program (BSPS) in North Lombok Regency, with a state loss of IDR 3.1 billion. "We are still investigating the assets belonging to the convict for auction needs to cover state losses," said Head of the Mataram Kejari Intelligence Section Harun Arrasyd in Mataram, Antara, Tuesday, August 29. His party has confiscated a number of valuable assets belonging to the convicts in the North Lombok area. He said the assets were in the form of a 400 square meter plot of land in the root-akar village, a 4,639 square meter plot of land in Andalan Village, and a 12,772 square meter plot of land in Sukadana Village. "In addition to the land, we have also confiscated the buildings on the land," he said. The confiscation of assets belonging to the corruption convict was marked by the installation of a confiscation notification sign by the Confiscation Section Team of Evidence and Rampasan Goods and the Mataram District Attorney's Intelligence Team last Thursday. "So, that's what we have successfully confiscated, there are others, and it is still in the inventory stage. If everything is recorded, we will then propose it for an auction at the KPKNL (State Property and Auction Service Office)," he said. He also ensured that the convict was not only caught in the problem of corruption, but also general crimes. With this status, Harun said this inventory was to facilitate the legal process, which is still stating Ruslan on the prosecutor's wanted list (DPO). Based on the decision of the Corruption Court at the Mataram District Court with case Number: 13/Pid.Sus-TPK/2017/PN.Mtr, dated July 24, 2017, sentenced Ruslan to a prison sentence of seven years and six months and a fine of Rp. 300 million, subsidiary to four months in prison. In addition, the judge also charged Ruslan with paying compensation for state losses amounting to Rp1.1 billion, and in the decision also ordered the public prosecutor to confiscate assets belonging to the convict. The trial at the first instance court took place without Ruslan's presence before the panel of judges or in absentia. The trial was carried out because Ruslan was included in the prosecutor's wanted list (DPO) since his status as a suspect at the prosecutor's investigation stage. With Ruslan's status still on the prosecutor's DPO, Harun emphasized that his party was still trying to trace his whereabouts.

In the search, the Mataram Prosecutor's Office also involved the NTB High Prosecutor's Office and the Attorney General's Office's Adhyaksa Monitoring Center (AMC). "Even though we have confiscated the assets, the convicts are still looking for them," he said.