The NTB Prosecutor's Office Extends The Detention Period Of 2 KUR Fund Corruption Suspects For 40 Days

Spokesperson for the NTB Prosecutor's Office, Efrien Saputra. BETWEEN

The West Nusa Tenggara High Prosecutor's Office issued a letter extending the detention period of two suspects in corruption in people's business credit funds (KUR) from one of the conventional banks. Spokesperson for the NTB Prosecutor's Office, Efrien Saputra, confirmed the extension of the detention period for the two suspects with the initials AM (54) and IR (52). "Yes, the detention period of the two suspects has been extended," said Efrien in Mataram, Antara, Monday, October 24. Previously, the two suspects served the first detention period for 20 days starting on October 7, 2022. Prosecutors' investigators entrusted the detention of the two suspects at the Class IIA Mataram Penitentiary, Kuripan, West Lombok Regency. Efrien explained that the second detention period will be valid for 40 days, starting from the time the first detention period expires on October 26, 2022. "So, this second detention period is valid from October 26, 2022 and will expire on December 7, 2022," he said. Efrien explained that the basis for extending the suspect's detention period saw an unfinished investigation at the hands of investigators. He also revealed that the investigation is currently underway at the stage of calculating state financial losses (PKKN) by cooperating with auditors from the NTB Representative Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP). "If there are PKKN results, a case will be held to prepare for delegation to the research prosecutor," he said. Suspects AM and IR in this case have different roles. For AM, it was revealed that he was a former high-ranking official in the banking position of channeling KUR funds, while IR as the Treasurer of the Indonesian Farmers Harmony Association (HKTI) NTB. This distribution project first emerged from cooperation between conventional bank PT BNI and PT SMA in distributing KUR funds to farmer communities in Lombok. In the cooperation contained in the agreement letter Number: Mta/01/PKS/001/2020, PT SMA and PT BNI signed the distribution of KUR funds for farmers in East Lombok and Central Lombok. The number of farmers registered as recipients is 789 people. After signing the cooperation, PT SMA in September 2020 contracted the task of distributing the KUR funds to the CV ABB company, which is domiciled in NTB. The CV ABB legality carries out distribution in accordance with the subcontract contained in the appointment letter Number: 004/ADM.KUR-SMA/IX/2020. The existence of CV ABB in this distribution was also revealed because there was a recommendation from HKTI NTB which is now under the leadership of the Deputy Regent of East Lombok Rumaksi. Dalam rangkaian penyidikan, jaksa sudah memeriksa para pihak terkait, di antaranya dari pengurus HKTI NTB, termasuk Wakil Bupati Lombok Timur Rumaksi sebagai ketua. Apart from HKTI, witnesses who had attended the investigators came from PT BNI, which facilitated the distribution of aid in the form of funds. Another witness from CV ABB, a company that provides assistance to recipients from farmer groups in managing the aid funds. Now investigators are trying to complete the inspection among the aid recipient farmers. The inspection was carried out with the audit team to calculate state losses.