Dimas Kanjeng Presented Online From Surabaya Prison At The YPUMK Fund Misappropriation Session

The trial of alleged misappropriation of funds from the Muria Kudus University Development Foundation (YPUMK) was again held at the Kudus District Court, Wednesday, October 11. (Between)

JATENG - The prosecutor will present Dimas Kanjeng Taat Pribadi as a witness in a case of alleged misappropriation of funds of up to tens of billions with three defendants managing the Muria Kudus University (YUMK) Trustees Foundation.

"Rencananya, Dimas Kanjeng Taat Pribadi kami hadirkan pada sidang di Pengadilan Negeri Kudus dengan agenda pemeriksaan saksi-saksi pada 2 November 2023," kata Kepala Seksi Pidana Umum Kejaksaan Negeri (Kejari) Kudus, Tegar Mawang Dhita di Kudus, Jawa Tengah, Kamis 26 Oktober, disitat Antara.

Initially, he said, Dimas Kanjeng wanted to be presented in person at the trial from his location being detained at the Surabaya Prison. However, because it was related to security, it was finally decided that the trial would take place online.

Tegar explained that the Public Prosecutor (JPU) presented Dimas Kanjeng to carry out cross-checks related to state losses in this case. Kroscek was carried out because the previous loss was stated to have reached Rp27 billion, but in the file for checking the losses suffered by the UMK amounted to Rp24.67 billion.

From the money that reached tens of billions, he said, the results of the confessions of the suspects were indeed handed over to Dimas Kanjeng.

"Although the suspects revealed that the handover of money to Dimas Kanjeng to the knowledge of the YPUMK management, it turned out that it was denied because other YPUMK administrators had never had an agreement with the Dimas Kanjeng Padepokan," he said.

The trial of the UMK case at the Kudus District Court has been recorded to have been held up to 10 times with the number of witnesses presented 10 out of 60 witnesses recorded. Tegar said the witnesses presented at the trial were prioritized to support the evidence.

In this case, the defendant was a YUMK administrator for the 2012-2016 period, totaling three people. They are Lilik R, a former treasurer, Zamhuri as an employee and M. Ali is a lawyer.

The previous trial with the agenda of examining witnesses, the prosecutor presented the YPUMK Supervisory Section Robby Santosa as a reporting witness. The witness explained that the fraud found, among others, at the time of opname cash on 27 October 2016, the general treasurer of YPUMK for the 2012-2016 period Lilik R could not show physical evidence of USD 1,300.000 in foreign currency.

From the cash book, it is only recorded as spending on hospital tools, land payments, development costs without the support of valid evidence or supporting documents such as contracts, receipts, which later at the end of 2015 by the general treasurer were adjusted to USD value.

Then, it was found that transactions that could not be accounted for as of October 29, 2016 amounted to Rp24.6 billion. From these results, most of them have been recognized by the person concerned and have also been stated in writing in a statement on October 27, 2016 and revised on October 29, 2016 and the person concerned also promised to return it no later than December 31, 2016.

Because there is no progress and good faith to return funds to the YPUMK until the tolerance is determined, the supervisor assigns the management to take legal action through the judiciary.