North Gorontalo Kejari Detains Head Of Molonggota Village Allegedly Involved In Village Fund Corruption

The North Gorontalo District Attorney's Office (Kejari) has detained the acting village head of Molonggota, Gentua District, with the initials HSA on suspicion of corruption in the Village Fund. (ANTARA/Susanti Sako)

GORONTALO - The North Gorontalo District Attorney, Gorontalo Province, detained the village head of Molonggota, Gentuma District, with the initials HSA on suspicion of corruption in village funds. Head of Intelligence Section of the North Gorontalo Kejari, Eddie Soedradjat, said that the corruption investigation team named HSA as a suspect in the management of the Molonggota Village funds from 2020 to 2021. The determination of the suspect was carried out today at around 12.30 WITA. HSA is the acting village head of Molonggota for the period 2020 to 2021. The suspect HSA is being held at the North Gorontalo Rutan for the next 20 days starting November 1, 2023. The detention is based on the Detention Order of the Head of the North Gorontalo District Attorney Number: 1115 dated November 1, 2023. "The detention was carried out by a team of investigators to prevent the suspect from running away, damaging or eliminating evidence and or repeating a criminal act and immediately accelerating the process of resolving the case," Eddie said in Gorontalo, Wednesday, The deviation of village funds allegedly carried out by suspect HSA based on the results of the calculation of state financial losses by the Gorontalo Province Supreme Audit and Development Agency (BPKP) amounted to Rp195,863,150. Suspect HSA is suspected of violating Article 2 Paragraph (1) of Law Number 31 of 1999 as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption with a minimum imprisonment of four years in prison and a maximum of 20 years, and/or a fine of at least Rp. 200 million and a maximum of Rp. 1 billion.

Plus the alleged violation of Article 3 of Law Number 31 of 1999 as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption with a minimum imprisonment of one year and a maximum of 20 years, and/or a fine of at least Rp. 50 million and a maximum of Rp. 1 billion.