Investigation Considered Awkward, Suspect Of Fictitious Credit Corruption Of Central Lombok BPR Files Pretrial

The legal advisory team for suspect H shows a pretrial lawsuit related to the handling of the NTB BPR case in Mataram, NTB, Wednesday (29/6/2022). ANTARA/Dhimas BP

NTB - The suspect in the alleged corruption case of distribution and granting of fictitious credit to a regional company (Perusda) Rural Bank (BPR) Central Lombok Branch with the initials H (60) filed a pretrial lawsuit. In this case, H acts as an account officer.

Hartono, legal adviser to H (60) filed a pretrial lawsuit with the defendant from the Central Lombok District Attorney's Office.

"We are suing the prosecutor's office because there are irregularities in the investigation process up to the investigation stage," Hartono said in Mataram, NTB, Wednesday, June 29.

Hartono said suspect H did not receive assistance during the investigation at the investigation stage. According to him, the prosecutor's investigators were also judged not to have carried out the examination procedures properly.

"During the examination, investigators only copied and pasted the previous suspect's statement as a witness. There were no questions and answers. They were only asked to sign the finished BAP (minutes of examination)," he said.

Even more strange, he said, after the suspect signed the examination dossier, suddenly an appointed attorney from the Central Lombok District Attorney's Office appeared. The lawyer came and immediately signed the BAP.

"It should have been from the initial examination process, the suspect was accompanied by legal counsel, not after the suspect signed the BAP," Hartono said.

Regarding Hartono's role as the attorney for suspect H, at the initial stage his party followed up by asking investigators for a copy of the BAP.

"Initially it was rejected, but after we communicated deeply, only then did investigators want to provide a copy," he said.

The results of the BAP examination of suspect H became the basis for Hartono and his team to file a pretrial. "So we saw that there were errors and mistakes. That was the basis for us to file a pretrial lawsuit," Hartono said.

Other material in the lawsuit, Hartono conveyed related to the detention process of suspect H which was considered not in accordance with the Criminal Procedure Code.

Furthermore, Hartono said that the pretrial lawsuit has been registered at the Praya District Court. "Friday (July 1), the first trial," he added.

This case has been handled by the Central Lombok Kejari since 2019. In his suspicions, it appears that unscrupulous BPR employees entered into fictitious credit agreements in the 2014-2015 period. Reportedly there are 190 customers who appear in the fictitious credit agreement.

From the series of investigations, about 30 witnesses have been examined. Many of those who provided information were employees of PD BPR Central Lombok Branch.

In the series, the prosecutor's office has also conducted a search. A number of documents were confiscated from two locations of the Central Lombok Branch of PD BPR, namely in the Batukliang and Mantang areas.

Based on the results of the audit of state losses, the figure was found to be Rp. 2.3 billion. This figure emerged from the results of the internal control system audit (SPI) of BPR NTB.