Former Surabaya Walkot Bambang DH 8 Years Suspect Status, East Java Regional Police Coordinates With KPK

Polda Jatim (DOK. AM Sby / VOI)

SURABAYA - It has been 8 years since former Surabaya Mayor Bambang DH has been a suspect. The case of Bambang DH, namely the suspicion of corruption in the 2009 APBD levies (japung) was handled by the East Java (East Java) Regional Police.

The Hong Kong corruption case related to the disbursement of funds from the 2009 Surabaya municipal government budget for local DPRD members amounting to Rp720 million. At that time, the Mayor of Surabaya was Bambang DH. There was also the chairman of the Surabaya DPRD at that time, Musyafak Rouf, now the Chairman of the Surabaya National Awakening Party (PKB).

The East Java Regional Police investigated japung funds in 2010. Entering the court, four people became prisoners and had finished serving their sentences. They are Musyafak Rouf, former Assistant II of the Surabaya City Government, Muklas Udin, former City Secretary, Sukamto Hadi, and former municipal government finance division, Purwito.

In 2012, the East Java Regional Police developed the facts of the trial of the four convicts. As a result, in 2013, Bambang DH was named a suspect. However, until now, the case has not climaxed. Not yet in court, not stopped. It has been seven years since Bambang DH was hanged as a suspect.

Bambang DH's case 'settled' because of the cross opinion between the Regional Police and the East Java Prosecutor's Office. The investigators handed back and forth, the case files were never declared complete (P21). The investigator prosecutor's instructions are that the investigator has not included evidence of the suspect's mens rea (intentions of evil deeds). The prosecutor asked the police investigator to complete it. The KPK once supervised, but still stuck.

How is the development of the case at this time?

"Phase one (submission) has been carried out, (but) the P-19 (files were returned by the prosecutor to the police) nine times," said East Java Regional Police Special Crime Investigation Director Kombes Gidion Arif Setiawan, at the East Java Regional Police Tuesday, December 29th

That case, continued Gidion, got the attention of the KPK and had been supervised. Well, now it's just waiting for a joint decision whether the case will be continued or stopped. "It has been assisted by the KPK, later it will be decided together, the KPK, Bareskrim, and the East Java Regional Police," said Gidion.

Meanwhile, Bambang DH did not want to bother with the status of the suspect. He also admitted that he would not take any steps to resolve the legal uncertainty that surrounded him.

"I take it easy," said the member of the Indonesian Parliament when met by reporters at the Grahadi State building in Surabaya in 2019.