NTB Prosecutor's Office Arrests Former Sharia Bank Officials In Semarang

The Special Criminal Team of the West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) High Prosecutor's Office (Kejari) arrested a former official of a state-owned sharia bank with the initials SE in Semarang City, Central Java.

Spokesperson for the NTB Prosecutor's Office, Efrien Saputera, explained that his party arrested SE in his private home on the status of a suspect in the corruption case of people's business credit funds (KUR) for cattle breeders in 2021-2022 at the Mataram-Majapahit assistant branch.

He mentioned the location of the arrest of suspect SE at his home, in Lamber Kidul, Semarang City, Central Java, at around 20.15 WIB.

Prosecutor's investigators have temporarily entrusted the suspect SE in the detention room belonging to the Semarang City Prosecutor's Office.

"So, tomorrow morning at 05.00 WIB, the suspect and a team from the NTB Prosecutor's Office will fly from Semarang to Lombok," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, December 18.

SE is the third suspect who is currently undergoing the detention of prosecutors at the Class II A Prison in West Lombok, including two people with the initials M and MS who act as offtakers or cattle collectors.

With the arrest of SE, there is one more suspect who has not been arrested with the initials MSZ who also acts as an offtaker.

In this investigation process, the prosecutor's office has pocketed the results of the audit of calculating state financial losses with a value of at least Rp. 8.5 billion.

The loss figure arises from the results of the NTB Inspectorate's exposure which states that there are indications of state financial losses in the investigation of the alleged corruption case in the distribution of KUR funds.