Kejari Mukomuko Confiscated Bottled Drinking Water Machines And IDR 204 Million Regarding BUMD Corruption

JAKARTA - The District Attorney for Mukomuko Regency, Bengkulu Province, has confiscated a number of money and assets related to the alleged corruption case of the state budget for business capital in Regional-Owned Enterprises (BUMD).

"Since the last few days we have made a number of confiscations, namely around Rp. 204.2 million in cash from a number of parties, including from two suspects," said Head of the Mukomuko District Prosecutor's Office, Rudi Iskandar, in his statement in Mukomuko, reported by Antara, Sunday, March 21.

He said his party had also confiscated BUMD's assets in the form of a package of bottled drinking water machines and a package of mineral water machines which were confiscated by officers from Bandung, West Java Province.

He said that a package of mineral water machines with a value of Rp. 124 million belonging to a local BUMD has been under the management of a third party in the Bandung area.

"The asset in the form of a mineral water machine located in the Bandung area was managed by PT MMS as an investment for the bottled mineral water business," he also said.

Rudi hopes that with a number of confiscations of money and assets related to the alleged corruption of the state budget for business capital in BUMD, it can cover the state's losses.

In the meantime, he said, based on his estimation, the amount of state losses due to the alleged corruption case of the state budget for business capital in local BUMDs reached more than Rp1.1 billion.

"This is just the estimation of the investigators from the Prosecutor's Office, Mukomuko. "As for the official amount of the state's losses, we are still waiting for the results of the audit from the Development and Finance Audit Agency (BPKP)," said Rudi.

BUMD PT Mukomuko Maju Sejahtera (MMS) from 2006 to 2016 received business capital or capital participation of IDR 7 billion, sourced from the local government's APBD.

Investigators at the Mukomuko District Prosecutor's Office conducted an investigation into the management of funds amounting to Rp. 7 billion from the 2006 to 2016 APBD.

Kejari suspects that the BUMD management, which received funds for capital amounting to Rp. 7 billion from the local government, managed the funds not according to the rules, thus potentially causing state losses.