Bintan Kejari Investigate Fictitious COVID-19 Incentive Cases At 2 Health Centers

Chief Kejari Bintan I Wayan Riana. ANTARA/Nikolas Panama

BINTAN - The District Attorney of Bintan Regency, Riau Islands Province, investigated the case of fictitious COVID-19 incentives in two puskesmas in the area.

The Head of the Kejari Bintan, I Wayan Riana, said that as many as 19 health workers on duty at the Sei Lekop Health Center and the Tambelan Health Center had been examined in this case.

Modus operandi, namely increasing working hours and inputting fictitious activities into the system. The fictitious additional working hours for health workers at the puskesmas caused the incentives sourced from the refocusing funds for handling COVID-19 to swell.

It was also revealed that the budget swelling also occurred in the fictitious additional activities of the health workers involved in the case.

"Health workers who are in charge of handling special finances for that have admitted their actions," said I Wayan Riana, a former KPK prosecutor as quoted by Antara, Wednesday, November 24.

Riana explained that the incentive funds for health workers were sourced from the Bintan APBD in 2020 and 2021. The budget value for incentives for health workers was IDR 400 million.

"We suspect the state loss is around Rp. 100 million. The money was channeled to a number of health workers," he said. From that case, Riana emphasized that her party would deepen the incentive program for health workers at other health centers in Bintan.

"In 2022, we will begin to explore the incentive cases in other health centers," he said.

Currently, according to him, the prosecutor's office is also targeting a number of cases of alleged corruption in Bintan.

"There are a number of cases that we are investigating. Hopefully, they will go up to the investigation stage soon," he said.