Former President Director Of PT TransJakarta Kuncoro Wibowo Officially Detained By KPK Due To Corruption In PKH Rice Social Assistance

Former President Director (Managing Director) of PT Bhanda Ghara Reksa (BGR) who is also the former President Director of PT TransJakarta, Muhammad Kuncoro Wibowo is wearing an orange vest. (Tsa Tsia-VOI)

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) officially detained the former President Director (Managing Director) of PT Bhanda Ghara Reksa (BGR) who is also the former President Director of PT TransJakarta, Muhammad Kuncoro Wibowo today, Monday, September 18. He had an orange dream because he was a suspect in the alleged corruption of social assistance (bansos) for the Family Hope Program (PKH) rice program.

"For the needs of the investigation process, the investigative team detained the MKW suspect at the KPK Detention Center," said Acting Deputy for Enforcement and Execution of the KPK Asep Guntur during a press conference at the KPK's Red and White Building, Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta, Monday, September 18.

Asep said Kuncoro would be detained for 20 days and could be extended according to the needs of investigators. As for this case, the anti-corruption commission also ensnared five other people.

They are former Commercial Director of PT Bhanda Ghara Reksa (BGR), Budi Susanto; former Vice President of Operations of PT BGR, April Chuniawan; President Director of Mitra Energi Persada (MEP), Ivo Wongkaren; advisory team of PT Primalayan Teknologi Persada (PTP) Roni Ramdani and Richard Cahyanto. With this detention, all suspects who have been named in this case have been detained," he said.

In this case, Budi and April, known to Kuncoro, allegedly prepared companies that were not competent in distributing social assistance. This incident occurred after the Ministry of Social Affairs (Kemensos) appointed PT BGR to distribute it.

The value of this work contract reached Rp326 billion. Then, there were a number of frauds committed by Budi and April.

Among them is intimidating a number of staff to make engineered auction documents. As a result of the actions of the state suspects then lost up to IDR 127.5 billion.