Lampung Attorney General's Office Examines 4 Witnesses In Alleged Corruption In KONI Grant Funds

Lampung High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati) (ANTARA)

LAMPUNG - The Lampung High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati) for Special Crimes (Pidsus) has examined four witnesses in a corruption case involving the misuse of grant funds from the Indonesian National Sports Committee (KONI) Lampung in the 2020 budget.

The Head of the Legal Information Section (Kasi Penkum) of the Lampung Attorney General's Office, I Made Agus Putra, said the four people being investigated were the Head of the KONI Achievement Development Division of Lampung Province, Surahman, the General Chair of Harpain and Equipment, the Head of the Bani Kasria Secretariat, and the KONI Deputy Secretariat. Lampung Province, Barry Salatar.

"Surahman, Beni, and Barry are being questioned regarding allegations of corruption in the misuse of KONI grant funds. Meanwhile, Harpain is being investigated regarding technical procurement activities, supervision of goods and services in the procurement of KONI grant funds," he said in Bandarlampung, Antara, Thursday, January 27. .

Made continued, a total of 16 witnesses were examined in the KONI case. However, the Lampung Prosecutors' Special Prosecutor's Investigation Team will summon a total of 52 witnesses. "The investigation will continue in the next few weeks considering that there are still witnesses who did not come when the summons was made," he said.

Previously, the Lampung Attorney General's Office had raised the status of the alleged corruption case in the Lampung KONI grant fund of Rp. 29 billion from the investigation to the investigation stage. The kONI grant funds disbursed by the Lampung Provincial Government had several factors that were channeled inappropriately so that the Lampung Attorney General's Office continued to examine a number of witnesses to identify suspects.

The reasons for not being channeled properly include the work program and budget of KONI Lampung not being prepared based on the proposed needs of KONI Lampung and sports (Cabor).

Then it was found that there were irregularities in the work program budget in Sports other than at KONI Lampung regarding the procurement of goods and services that were not in accordance with statutory regulations, and KONI Lampung and Sports in the submission of work program needs in 2020 were not guided by the submission of needs and grant budgets so that the use of It is suspected that the grant funds had irregularities in the procurement of goods and services at the Sports and KONI Lampung.

The Lampung Provincial Government itself budgets and disburses funds in several stages. The first phase was disbursed in the amount of IDR 29 billion and the second phase of IDR 30 billion.

Of the Rp29 billion budget, KONI Lampung has divided several activities, including Rp22 billion for the coaching budget, Rp3 billion for the 2020 PON participation budget, and Rp3 billion for the Lampung secretariat budget.