Former Village Head Sent To Prison Due To Illegal Drugs, Case Of Alleged Village Fund Corruption

Kudus District Attorney's Office, Central Java/ANTARA

KUDUS - The Kudus District Attorney's Office, Central Java, has not yet named a suspect in the alleged corruption case of village funds in Panjang Village, although the case has been going on since 2018.

"We have re-investigated the case of alleged corruption in village funds in Panjang Village, Bae District, since March 2022 until now, it is still continuing," said the Head of Special Crimes at the Kudus District Attorney, Bambang Sumarsono accompanied by the Head of Subsidy for Investigation Haris Abdurohman Ibawi in Kudus, Antara, Thursday, June 2nd.

The results of the investigation, he said, found allegations of unlawful acts. The reason is, from a number of projects that were carried out, there were findings of physical deficiencies from nine projects. In addition, there are expenditures of funds that cannot be accounted for or there is no supporting evidence.

He said that up to now more than 10 witnesses have examined, including expert witnesses and a former Panjang Village Head with the initials AD who is serving time in Slawi Prison, Tegal Regency, Central Java, for another case.

"We have asked for information from the former village head in Slawi Prison, including asking for information from a number of village officials," he said.

The value of state losses based on the audit results of the Kudus Inspectorate is Rp. 130 million, while the budget obtained in the 2017 APBDes is around Rp. 1.46 billion.

The Kejari Kudus also plans to conduct a re-audit so that the possible value of state losses could be different.

The former Kades Panjang with the initials AD is currently serving a sentence in Slawi Prison for his involvement in drug abuse. This is suspected to be one of the factors that have not yet completed the completion of the alleged corruption case in Panjang Village.

AD as Kades Panjang was temporarily dismissed while waiting for the return of village funds for the 2017 fiscal year which was allegedly used for personal interests.

However, until the specified time limit was not returned it was finally terminated definitively. The case of the alleged use of village funds was finally handled by the Kudus District Attorney because there was a potential for state losses.

Based on the letter from the Kudus Regency Inspectorate on July 11 2018 regarding the progress report on the follow-up to the recommendations of the Kudus Inspectorate's examination of Panjang Village until the deadline for temporary suspension, the former Long Village Head with the initials AD did not follow up on most of the recommendations from the Inspectorate.

The Kudus Regent finally dismissed AD from the position of Long Village Head on July 31, 2018.