Corruption Case Of Dispendbud Aru Maluku, Prosecutor's Office Records State Losses Reaches IDR 4.320 Billion

Kejari Kepulauan Aru, Maluku kembali menetapkan satu tersangka baru perkara dugaan korupsi penyalahian/penempatan Belangan Uang Nihil pada Dinas Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan setempat. (10/3) (ANTARA/HO/Kejari Kepulauan Aru)

MALUKU - The District Attorney's Office (Kejari) noted that the state losses from the corruption case of misuse of Cash Compensation Expenditures at the Education and Culture Office (Dispendbud) of the Aru Islands Regency in Maluku for the 2018 fiscal year amounted to IDR 4.320 billion.

"The loss is in accordance with the report on the results of the investigative examination of the calculation of state losses on the management of the 2018 fiscal year's inventory money Number: 39 LHP/XXI 11/2022 on November 14, 2022 by the BPK RI Maluku Province Representative," said Head of Intel Kejari Aru, Romi Prasetiya Niti Sasmito in a statement, Friday, March 10, confiscated by Antara.

According to him, the Aru Islands Kejari had previously named Johan Djabur and Albert Niko Tiwery as suspects in this case and was currently undergoing trial at the Ambon Corruption Court.

Johan is the treasurer of expenditure at the Dikbud Service and Albert is a Financial-SKPD Entrepreneur.

Then investigators again named a new suspect with the initials JA as Head of the Aru Islands Education and Culture Office as the Budget User Authority.

"The determination of the suspect was carried out after the prosecutor's office conducted a case on Thursday, (9/3) 2023 and was immediately detained by the Head of Special Investigation Unit of the Aru Islands Kejari, Fauzan Arif Nasution," he said.

The suspect JA is suspected of violating Article 2 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 18 of the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 31 of 1999 as amended and supplemented by Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 20 of 2001 concerning Amendments to Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code.

The subsidiary indictment is Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 31 of 1999 as amended and supplemented by Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 20 of 2001 concerning Amendments to Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code.

In investigating this case, investigators have confiscated money from the suspect's criminal act worth Rp733 million and evidence in the form of two speed boats, one motorbike, three motorcycle engine units, and a plot of land and building on it.