Rector Of Unila Sets The Highest Price Of Rp350 Million To Help Graduate New Students

Director of KPK Investigation Asep Guntur Rahayu/ Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has named the Chancellor of the University of Lampung (Unila) Karomani as a suspect in the alleged bribery of accepting new student candidates at the campus he leads. Karomani set a price ranging from Rp. 100 million to Rp. 350 million to help graduate new Unila students.

"Regarding the nominal amount of money agreed between KRM (Karomani) it is suspected that the amount varies with a minimum range of Rp. 100 million to Rp. 350 million," said KPK Deputy Chair Nurul Ghufron in a press conference broadcast on the KPK's YouTube account, Sunday, August 21.

Karomani asked for bribes from parents who wanted their children to be given a special path in the independent selection to enter Unila (Simanila) for the 2022 academic year. Karomani set the price because he had the authority to select Simanila.

Karomani also actively organizes his subordinates to sort out prospective students who register for Simanila. He ordered Heryandi as the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Budi Sutomo as the Head of the Planning and Public Relations Bureau and Muhammad Basri as the Chair of the Senate to participate in the personal selection regarding the ability of students' parents.

"So it can be helped by handing over some money other than the official money paid according to the mechanism," said Ghufron.

Karomani also allegedly ordered Mualimin as a lecturer to help collect some money from the parents of the selection participants who he wanted to pass.

Then, Andi Desfiandi as one of the families of the prospective Simanila selection participants allegedly contacted Karomani to meet with the aim of handing over some money. This is because his family members have passed Simanila with Karomani's help.

On Karomani's instructions, Mualimin took a deposit of Rp150 million in cash from Andi Desfiandi at a place in Lampung.

"All the money that KRM (Karomani) collected through Mualimin from the parents of prospective students who were graduated from KRM amounted to Rp603 million and has been used for KRM's personal needs of around Rp575 million," he said.

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) also found time deposits and gold bars which were allegedly related to the admission of these new students. But unfortunately, Ghufron did not specify the total gold and deposits owned by Karomani from bribes.

Furthermore, Ghufron said that not all of the bribes obtained were used as goods and deposits by Karomani, some of them were still in the form of cash.

"Saved in the form of cash with a total of around Rp. 4.4 billion," said Ghufron.

For your information, the KPK has named four suspects in this case. They consist of, the Chancellor of Unila, Karomani; Vice Chancellor I for Academic Affairs, University of Lampung, Heryandi; Chairman of the Senate of the University of Lampung, Muhammad Basri; and the private sector, Andi Desfiandi.

KPK Director of Investigation Asep Guntur Rahayu said the investigative team detained three suspects for the first 20 days from August 20, 2022 to September 8, 2022, namely Karomani was detained at the KPK Detention Center at the KPK Red and White Building and Heryandi and Muhammad Basri were detained at the KPK Detention Center at Pomdam Jaya Guntur. .

Meanwhile, the suspect Andi Desfiandi was detained from August 21, 2022 to September 9, 2022 at the KPK Detention Center at Pomdam Jaya Guntur.

"Because there was a time difference between the time of arrest, the Army was arrested later," said Asep.

For their actions, Karomani, Heryandi, and Muhammad Basri as recipients were suspected of violating Article 12 letter a or letter b or Article 11 of Law Number 31 of 199 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph 1 to 1 of the Criminal Code.

Meanwhile Andi Desfiandi as the giver is suspected of violating Article 5 paragraph 1 letter a or Article 5 paragraph 1 letter b or Article 13 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Corruption Crimes as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001.