East Kolaka Regent Will Immediately Be Tried Regarding Alleged Bribery For Infrastructure Development From Grant Funds

The suspect in the inactive East Kolaka Regent Andi Merya Nur walks to the prisoner's car after undergoing examination at the KPK's Red and White Building, Jakarta, Friday (12/24/2021) / Antara

JAKARTA - The inactive East Kolaka Regent Andi Merya Nur will soon be tried in relation to allegations of corruption in the procurement of goods and services from a grant from the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB).

Acting Spokesperson for the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) for Enforcement, Ali Fikri, said the trial was conducted after the transfer of the suspect and evidence or stage II had been carried out by the public prosecutor (JPU). This was done on Thursday, December 30 yesterday.

"The prosecutor's team has received the delegation of suspects and evidence (phase II) from the investigation team for suspect AMN (Andi Merya Nur) because the case file has been declared complete," Ali told reporters, Friday, December 31.

Furthermore, the detention of Andi Merya will be continued by the KPK prosecutor for the next 20 days until January 18. Ali said Andi would again be detained at the KPK Rutan in the Red and White Building.

After the submission of the suspect and the dossier, the prosecutor will have 14 working days to submit the complete dossier with the indictment. The trial will be held at the Kendari Corruption Court.

"The team of prosecutors will transfer the case file along with an indictment to the Corruption Court within 14 working days. The trial will later be held at the Corruption Court at the Kendari District Court," he said.

As previously reported, the KPK has named the East Kolaka Regent Andi Merya Nur and the Head of the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of East Kolaka Regency, Anzarullah, as suspects in the case. Currently, Anzarullah has the status of a defendant.

The case began in September 2021 when Andi and the Head of the East Kolaka BPBD Anzarullah submitted a logistics and equipment grant to the Central BNPB in Jakarta. From this request, East Kolaka received a relocation and reconstruction grant of Rp. 26.9 billion. Not only that, East Kolaka Regency also received a ready-to-use grant of Rp. 12.1 billion.

Furthermore, Anzarullah asked Andi Merya so that the project whose funds came from the BNPB grant was carried out by trusted people and other parties who assisted in the disbursement process.

There were two projects that Anzarullah had asked him to do. The project is a package of spending on consulting services for planning a bridge work for 2 units in Ueesi Sub-district worth Rp. 714 million and planning for consulting services for the construction of 100 housing units in Uluiwoi Sub-district worth Rp. 175 million.

On this request, Andi Merya agreed and Anzarullah would provide a fee of 30 percent. In addition, he also ordered that the requested project consulting services be won by Anzarullah.

It was from this evil conspiracy that Andi was suspected of receiving Rp250 million in cash with a down payment of Rp25 million.