Corruption Rp 900 Million, Former Bawaslu Member In Kaur Bengkulu Was Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison

BENGKULU - The District Court for Corruption Crimes (Tipikor) Bengkulu sentenced the former Commitment Making Officer (PPK) of the Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) of Kaur Regency, namely RD. As well as the Treasurer of the Expenditure of Bawaslu Kaur Regency, namely SA, to be sentenced to imprisonment for one year and four months. "The two defendants committed a criminal act of corruption in the misuse of the socialization budget at the Kaur Regency Bawaslu in 2018-2019," said Chief Justice of the District Court Dicky Wahyudi Susanto as quoted by ANTARA Friday, February 3. In addition, for the defendant RD to be fined Rp. 100 million, subsidiary to three months in prison and had to pay compensation of Rp. 156 million. If the defendant RD does not make such payment, then his property will be confiscated, but if it is not sufficient, he will be replaced with imprisonment for six months. Meanwhile, the defendant SA is subject to a fine of Rp. 100 million, subsidiary of three months in prison. Public Prosecutor (JPU) Kaur District Attorney Kaur Widoto Khahar said that his party would first think whether to accept a judge's decision or appeal related to the verdict. Previously, the two defendants carried out socialization of monitoring of the participative election, where participants in the activity should get pocket money and transportation of Rp. 245,000, but the participants only received Rp. 100 thousand. Then at the socialization of general election supervision activities, participants should get pocket and transportation money of Rp. 195 thousand, however, participants only received Rp. 100 thousand.

In addition to cutting the pocket and transportation money, the two defendants were suspected of abusing the procurement of equipment for the District Supervisory Committee (Panwascam) with a total budget of Rp. 4 billion. For the actions of the two defendants, the state suffered a loss of around Rp. 900 million, for the defendant RD to get personal profit of around Rp. 156 million and the defendant SA to enjoy Rp. 105 million.