Financial Staff Of PDAM Cirebon Corruption Rp3.71 Billion For Online Gambling Arrested

The Cirebon City Resort Police (Polres) arrested a financial staff of the Regional Drinking Water Company (PDAM) Tirta Giri Nata Cirebon with the initials AL (32) on suspicion of corruption with a total loss of Rp3.71 billion.

"The funds are used by perpetrators for personal gain, such as trading on several online applications and gambling (judol)," said Cirebon City Police Chief AKBP Eko Iskandar in Cirebon, Monday.

He said the Navy was suspected of abusing its authority, as PDAM's financial staff during 2024 to carry out this action.

Eko explained that in this case the perpetrator carried out five modes such as reducing the number of customer cash receipts, falsifying the board of directors' signatures, withdrawing funds with fake checks, transferring funds to personal accounts and editing financial transaction documents.

He said the total loss of this case was divided into three categories, namely embezzlement of money deposits of around Rp2.42 billion, reduction of the book transfer value of Rp1.38 billion and falsification of check signatures worth Rp200 million.

"In this disclosure, we confiscated a number of evidences in the form of remaining cash of Rp. 88 million and 125 documents, including internal PDAM documents and bank transaction reports," he said.

The case, he said, was successfully revealed after irregularities were found in the process of transferring funds from BTN accounts to PDAM's BJB account, which was then followed up with an audit by the Regional Inspectorate.

He said that during the investigation process, the police had examined 20 witnesses from the internal PDAM environment and other parties related to the company's financial process.

According to him, the suspect is known to have worked at the Cirebon City PDAM since 2014 and has started serving as a financial staff since 2021. Corruption was carried out during the period of the 2024 fiscal year.

The police chief emphasized that the suspect's actions were internal, so that they did not have an impact on clean water services to the community in the operational area of the Cirebon City PDAM.

As for now, said Eko, the suspect has been detained at the Cirebon City Police Headquarters for further legal proceedings.

"Our perpetrators are ensnared by Article 2, Article 3, and Article 8 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption with a maximum penalty of 20 years," he said.