Responding To The NTB Regional Secretary, The Attorney General's Office: There Has Been No Return On The Loss Of Corruption In Corn

Assistant for Special Crimes (Aspidsus) NTB Attorney General Gunawan Wibisono (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - The West Nusa Tenggara High Prosecutor's Office for Special Crimes confirmed that there was no return of state losses in the case of corruption in the procurement of corn seeds for the 2017 fiscal year.

"Until today, we think that there has been no return of state losses," said Assistant Special Crime (Aspidsus) of the NTB Attorney General's Office Gunawan Wibisono in Mataram, as reported by Antara, Thursday, February 11.

This statement from the NTB Attorney General's Office Aspidsus also answered NTB Secretary Lalu Gita Ariadi's statement regarding direct returns to the state treasury. The supplier of the corn seeds has returned it

This information was also received by the NTB Regional Secretary directly from Husnul Fauzi, Head of the NTB Agriculture and Plantation Service (Kadistanbun) who has now been named a suspect.

Regarding this, Gunawan confirmed again that his party had yet to receive any information regarding the return.

"Until today, we have not received any related information (the return of state losses)," he said.

Gunawan said that the procurement of corn seeds in 2017 was previously the finding of the Republic of Indonesia's BPK. Previously, BPK RI recommended that the state's loss be returned through the Inspectorate General of the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture.

However, until the time limit of 60 days, Gunawan said that the good faith of recovering state losses from the parties responsible had not arrived.

Therefore, if there is a refund of state losses without the prosecutor's knowledge or passing through, Gunawan ensures that this is not counted.

"Because this is the realm of investigation, it is no longer the realm of settlement at the APIP (internal government supervisory apparatus) level. Therefore, we urge us to return state losses directly to investigators," he said.

In this case, the prosecutor's investigators named the Head of the NTB Agriculture and Plantation Service (Kadistanbun) Husnul Fauzi as a suspect.

As the power of budget user (KPA), Husnul Fauzi was appointed together with the project commitment maker (PPK) official with the initials IWW.

Project implementers from private companies are also suspects. They have the initials LIH who are the directors of PT. WBS and AP, the director of PT. SAM.

From the results of investigations carried out since last October 2020, Gunawan confirmed that the actions of the perpetrators had caused considerable state losses.

Although the audit results have not yet been obtained from experts in calculating state losses. However, from the results of independent investigators' calculations, it was found that the losses reached Rp. 15.45 billion.

The Rp15.45 billion figure arose from the number of uncertified seeds and failed planting. The emergence of this figure is from procurement carried out by two private companies that act as project executors.

In the details, state losses from PT. The WBS appeared to be worth Rp. 7 billion. Then from PT. SAM IDR8.45 billion.

In his suspicion, the four suspects were threatened by Article 2 Paragraph 1 Juncto Article 18 of the Law on the Eradication of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 Paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code and or Article 3 Jo Article 18 of the Law on Eradicating Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 Paragraph 1 Into -1 KUHP.