DIY Prosecutor's Office Detains Suspect In Fictitious Investment Case Of Billions Of Rupiah

Head of the DIY High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati) Ponco Hartanto during a press conference related to the fictitious investment program case at the DIY Prosecutor's Office, Yogyakarta, Tuesday (25/7/2023). (ANTARA/HO-Kejati DIY)

YOGYAKARTA - The Yogyakarta Special Region High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati) has detained a former BRI employee with the initials RL, a suspect in a suspected corruption crime in a fictitious investment case that resulted in state financial losses of Rp5.67 billion.

"The suspect has been detained for 20 days starting from July 25, 2023 to August 15, 2023 at the Yogyakarta Class II B Women's Prison in Gunungkidul," said Head of the DIY High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati) Ponco Hartanto as reported by ANTRA, Tuesday, July 25.

During the period 2016 to 2022, said Ponco, RL, who was previously an employee of the BRI cashier (teller) Adisutjipto Yogyakarta Branch, allegedly offered investment in futures savings to customers with the lure of high interest.

In the future savings program which is not a program from BRI, the suspect offered with the condition that the deposit was deposited for a month or six.

"The minimum amount of deposit is IDR 100 million with an interest rate of around 1.5 percent every month and the savings is not equipped with a debit card or ATM facility," said Ponco.

A total of 13 customers are interested in opening savings accounts offered by RL with deposits varying from approximately 45 accounts.

"Customers are both old ones or new ones who are tempted by high interest rates," he said.

For the dozens of savings accounts, according to Ponco, it turns out that the suspect RL has issued an ATM debit card which is then managed and controlled and transferred to his personal account.

"The suspect also made a cash withdrawal for his personal needs and transferred it to another party and transferred it to the customer's savings account as if it were a interest payment for the savings program offered," he said.

Ponco said the actions of the suspect RL had harmed state finances amounting to Rp5,673,027,000.

The disclosure of the case, he said, was based on the results of an internal audit of the related bank which found an act of fraud or fraud.

"This is the result of an internal audit, there is a fraud and it was handed over to us," said Ponco.

Assistant for Special Crimes (Aspidsus) of the DIY Prosecutor's Office Muhammad Anshar Wahyuddin said that regarding the case that was only revealed in 2022, there were no victims who reported to the DIY Prosecutor's Office.

"No customer has reported it to us. At first, the customer did not know that the BRI program was thought to be after he paid the interest rate, no longer gave high interest rates. BRI just found out too," he said.

The suspect RL was charged with Article 2 paragraph (1) or Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of the Corruption Eradication Law.

"We have summoned the suspect three times who did not come. This morning we searched and we picked him up in Mranggen, Demak, Central Java," said Anshar.