The Attorney General's Office Has Determined That The South Bengkulu Baznas Treasurer Is A Suspect In Corruption, IDR 1.1 Billion In Cash.

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JAKARTA - The South Bengkulu District Attorney has named the Secretary of the South Bengkulu National Amil Zakat Agency (Baznas) as a suspect in a corruption case. The suspect SF is suspected of corruption in the Infaq Sedekah (ZIS) budget obtained from the obligations of the State Civil Apparatus (ASN) in South Bengkulu Regency from 2019 to 2020. "Based on the investigation that we carried out was corruption in ZIS resulting from ASN in South Bengkulu as well as from individuals," said South Bengkulu Kajari Hendri Hanafi when confirmed from Bengkulu, Friday, December 2. In the case of the alleged corruption committed by SF, Baznas Bengkulu suffered a loss of up to Rp1.1 billion. In the investigation, his party found that there were inflated activities (mark ups) in the procurement of assistance aimed at business activities and business capital. Then in the field of education and health, as well as assistance for poor people who contradicted the principles of zakat management as stipulated in Law Number 23 of 2011 concerning Zakat Management. In addition, investigators also found the fact that there was money that cannot be accounted for by the manager. "So based on the results of audits, state financial losses reached Rp1.1 billion," he said as quoted by Antara.

Based on the evidence held by the South Bengkulu District Attorney's investigators, SF was named a suspect. Hendri explained that SF was suspected of having committed a criminal act of corruption as contained in Article 2 and Article 3 of Law Number 31 of 1999 as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning Eradication of Corruption Crimes. After being named a suspect, the South Bengkulu Kejari detained SF for 20 days at the Manna Class IIB detention center while waiting for the transfer of files for trial.