Majalengka Police Arrest Corruption Suspects Cooperative Assistance

Majalengka Police Chief AKBP Indra Novianto/ANTARA HO Police

MAJALENGKA - Majalengka Resort Police, West Java, arrested a man with the initials MS, a suspect in the corruption of cooperative loan/financing assistance funds worth IDR 500 million.

"The funds are from the Ministry of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises of the Republic of Indonesia in 2013 through the Revolving Fund Management Agency for Cooperatives and Micro Enterprises (LPDB-KUMKM). The suspect MS submitted a proposal for a loan/financing application of Rp. 500 million," said Majalengka Police Chief AKBP Indra Novianto as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, October 18.

Indra explained that MS submitted the aid proposal to the Director of LPDB-KUMKM. When the funds have been submitted, the suspect uses them for personal gain.

Even though the assistance should have been intended for 170 cooperative members according to the Definitive List of LPDB-KUMKM Fund Recipients. Indra said MS himself was one of the heads of cooperatives in the Majalengka area.

"With this incident, state losses reached Rp. 500 million or total loss," said Indra.

In addition, Indra revealed that MS's actions made it sad that the suspect was suspected of manipulating the list of recipients of funds and making it fictitious.

The police involved expert witnesses and examined a number of witnesses and confiscated evidence.

"We snared the suspect under Article 2 Paragraph (1), Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 Paragraph (1), Paragraph (2) and Paragraph (3) of the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended and supplemented by Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 20 of 2001 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption," he explained.