The Prosecutor's Office Opens The Possibility Of New Suspects In The Corruption Case Of The 2019-2020 East OKU Bawaslu Grant Fund

The Prosecutor's Office has opened up the possibility of a new suspect in the alleged corruption case of grant funds in the Bawaslu of Ogan Komering Ulu (OKU) Timur Regency for the 2019-2020 fiscal year.

"Currently, we are continuing to dig up information in the alleged corruption case related to grant funds at the East OKU Bawaslu," said Head of Intelligence at the East OKU District Attorney's Office (Kejari) Arjansyah Akbar in Martapura, South Sumatra (Sumsel), Wednesday, August 30, confiscated by Antara.

Arjansyah said the East OKU Kejari continued to develop even though they had named three suspects in this case.

Earlier on Monday, August 28, the East OKU Kejari announced three suspects in the corruption case of East OKU Bawaslu grant funds.

The three initials are MU, AK and KA who serve as Assistant Expenditure Treasurer (BPP) and Commitment Making Officer (PPK) at the East OKU Bawaslu Secretariat since July 2020.

Suspects AK and MU are being held at the Martapura Class IIB Penitentiary for the next 20 days.

Meanwhile, the suspect KA has been detained first because he was involved in another case related to the corruption of the Prabumulih City Bawaslu grant fund.

This case stems from misappropriation of the East OKU Bawaslu grant fund for the 2019-2020 fiscal year with a total budget value of IDR 16.5 billion.

He explained that the funds that should have been used for the implementation of the Pilkada stages were allegedly misused or not according to their designation.

In carrying out criminal acts of corruption, the suspects made fictitious meetings, mark up for goods and services, fictitious official travel orders, and payment of honorariums to sub-district supervisors (Panwascam) for 12 months was not paid.

Based on the results of an interim investigation, he continued, the state losses caused in this corruption case amounted to Rp4.5 billion.

"Investigations are still ongoing regarding the flow of funds in this case, and the possibility of other suspects is still in the deepening stage," he said.