Central Aceh Police Arrest Three Suspects In Alleged Village Fund Corruption Cases

BANDA ACEH - The Central Aceh Resort Police (Polres) has named three former village officials in Kekelip Village in Atu Lintang District as suspects in the 2016 case of alleged corruption in village financial management.

"The three suspects are SB (43) as former reje (village head) Kampung Bintang Kekelip, PH (54) as former village secretary, and IPR (32) as former chairman of the TPK (Activity Implementation Team) Kampung Bintang Kekelip," said Head of the Public Relations Section (Kasihumas) of the Central Aceh Police, Commissioner Adjutant of Police Zein Hamid Hasibuan in Takengon, Monday 7 March.

The three former village officials are suspected of being involved in corruption in the management of village finances in 2016, with state losses reaching more than IDR 312 million.

He explained that the suspect SB, as the village head at the time, ordered the village treasurer, NA (deceased) to withdraw funds from the village treasury in a way that was not in accordance with the procedure.

Furthermore, SB also ordered NA to hand over the funds to the suspect IPR as the TPK Chair to carry out development activities and finance village development activities.

However, the funds sourced from the 2016 FY APBN by IPR were directly deposited into his personal account, without completing the obligation to carry out village development according to the village government's work program.

"The suspect IPR did not carry out and complete the village development in accordance with the initial planning, which was contained in the APBKampung (Village Income and Expenditure Budget), and there were several items of village development activities that were fictitious or not implemented, causing state financial losses of IDR 312.574,438," he explained.

Now the police have confiscated evidence in the form of cash amounting to IDR 150,000,000 from the suspects along with a number of activity documents.

The three suspects have also been in detention since December 14, 2021 for examination at the Central Aceh Police Headquarters until the case files are declared complete, Monday, to be transferred to the Central Aceh District Attorney's Office.

"The case files for the three suspects have entered phase two and today they were immediately handed over to the (Central Aceh) District Attorney's Office for follow-up," he said.