NTB - The East Lombok District Attorney (Kejari) in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) has developed an investigation into a case of alleged corruption in the procurement of a "Chromebook" laptop from the results of the examination of a number of goods providers.
"We are investigating by asking for additional information," said Head of the Special Crimes Section of the East Lombok Kejari, Ida Bagus Putu Swadharma when confirmed by telephone, Thursday, June 26, confiscated by Antara.
He said that this deepening or development could not be separated from the prosecutor's efforts to strengthen the evidence of corruption.
Regarding the Attorney General's Office and also several prosecutors in other areas who also carried out investigations with similar objects, Bagus said that his party had not been able to respond to this because it was related to the material of the case.
"In that case, I can't tell you yet because of the main handling of the case," he said.
In handling the case that has entered the investigation stage, Bagus admitted that investigators have not yet named a suspect.
To reveal this, investigators still need to strengthen evidence, one of which is related to the nominal loss of state finances which is the main thing in corruption cases.
In tracing the need for losses, Bagus said that his party still had to collect evidence from the statements of witnesses and related documents.
He did not deny that the number of witnesses in this case was quite large. The number of recipients alone reaches dozens of elementary schools in East Lombok Regency with a number of laptops reaching 300 units.
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Previously, the Head of the NTB High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati) Enen Saribanon stated that he paid attention to the investigation into the alleged corruption case of the Chromebook laptop whose procurement value reached Rp32 billion.
Enen revealed that the East Lombok Kejari is currently focusing on collecting evidence from examination of witnesses and related documents.
The witness examination was carried out in a marathon, starting from officials from the East Lombok Education and Culture Office (Disdikbud), providers of goods, to recipients from elementary schools.
Apart from witnesses, the examination also led to the object of the case, namely the Chromebook laptop which was spread across dozens of elementary schools.
The handling of the case from the procurement of information and communication technology equipment (ICT) at the East Lombok Education and Culture Office for the 2022 fiscal year is included in the investigation of the prosecutor starting April 30, 2025, as stated in the Investigation Order Number: PRINT-02/N.2.12/Fd.2/04/2025.
The realization of this goods procurement project comes from special allocation funds. Allegations of corruption lead to the specifications of goods and procurement implementation that are not in accordance with the instructions in the Regulation of the Minister of Education, Culture, Research and Technology Number 3 of 2022.
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