The Appearance Of Rp. 5.6 Billion Of Money From Corruption, The Treasurer Of The Karimun DPRD, Which Was Returned

RIAU ISLANDS - The Karimun District Attorney's Office (Kejari), Riau Islands, has returned the proceeds from a corruption case amounting to Rp5.6 billion to the local DPRD secretariat.

Kajari Karimun Meilinda, said the money was corrupted by the treasurer of DPRD expenditures on behalf of Hera Herma Novianti in 2020.

"The person in question has been named a suspect," said Kajari Karimun Meilinda as reported by Antara, Friday, November 12.

He explained that the report on the corruption case handled by his party began when the Secretariat of the Karimun Regency DPRD budgeted for employee expenditure costs in the form of salaries and allowances for leaders and council members of Rp. 13.5 billion for 2020.

However, during his trip, suspect Hera did not pay salaries during the period from November to December 2020.

"The salaries and allowances of leaders and board members range from Rp. 15 million to Rp. 30 million," he said.

The modus operandi used by the suspect was to manipulate the direct payment order (SPP-LS) for the salaries and allowances of the leadership and board members and falsify the signatures of the secretary of the council. changing the existing ceiling, not in accordance with the proper ceiling in the work plan and budget (RKA).

"In the investigation, sufficient evidence was found, so that the most responsible in this case is the treasurer of the council's expenditure," said Meilinda.

Furthermore, based on the data and examination as well as the calculation of state financial losses issued by the Inspectorate of Karimun Regency with the difference in disbursement or excess disbursement of Rp5.9 billion.

However, in the process of investigation and investigation, the suspect returned the state financial loss in a corruption case to the Karimun Regency regional treasury of Rp. 5.6 billion.

"So the difference in the state's financial losses, the remaining that cannot be accounted for is Rp. 227 million," he asserted.

The articles applied in the case of alleged corruption cases of Misuse of Budget Secretariat of the Karimun Regency DPRD for Fiscal Year 2020 Article 2 paragraph (1), Article 3 paragraph (1), Article 8 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law No. 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as has been amended and added to Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning Amendments to Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption.