NTB Police Finds Flow Of Alleged Money Laundering Funds Of IDR 6 Billion STKIP Bima Foundation

Illustration of money laundering. (Pixabay)

West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Police Investigators found indications of money laundering or money laundering in the management of Bima Teacher Training and Education College (STKIP) foundation funds with a value of at least Rp. 6 billion.

Director of the General Criminal Investigation of the NTB Police, Police Commissioner Teddy Ristiawan, explained that the indications of the TPPU emerged from the search results of the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK).

"So, the money (Rp 6 billion) is suspected to have flowed to a number of parties," said Teddy in Mataram, NTB, Monday, December 4, which was confiscated by Antara.

Some of them were revealed to have flowed to bank accounts belonging to two administrators of the foundation and another from outside the management.

"Who is outside the management? This is what we are still investigating," he said.

He revealed that the results of the PPATK search also recorded financial transactions without going through banks. This is now a challenge for investigators in their efforts to disclose.

However, he emphasized that this investigation will continue and be optimistic that the money laundering case from the management of the STKIP Bima foundation funds can be clearly revealed.

"One of our efforts is to continue to coordinate with PPATK to study the details of the audit results received previously," he said.

The police are handling this case based on a report referring to the criminal decision on embezzlement of funds from the STKIP Bima foundation.

In this case, a large number of losses emerged. This has been followed up by the campus in the form of a police report so that it is included in the handling of the money laundering offense case.

For the main criminal case of embezzlement of funds from the STKIP Bima foundation, a decision with permanent legal force has been obtained from the NTB High Court Appeal Judge, dated July 21, 2022.

In the decision at the appeal level, the judge upheld the decision of the Raba Bima District Court with case number 69/Pid.B/2022/PN Rbi dated May 31, 2022.

The verdict in the first instance court has sentenced three defendants, namely Muhammad Sopyan, three years in prison; Amran Amir, two years in prison; and Muhammad Fakhri, eight months in prison.

Amran Amir, is the former Chair of STKIP Bima for the 2016-2020 period. Then Muhammad Fakhri, Chairman of the IKIP Bima Foundation for the 2019-2020 period, while Muhammad Sopyan, Head of the General Administration for the 2016-2019 period and Head of the Finance Section for the 2019-2020 period.

The panel of judges at the Raba Bima District Court stated that the three defendants were legally and convincingly proven guilty of committing a criminal act together and continuously committing a criminal act of embezzlement in office.

The verdict is in accordance with the single indictment of the public prosecutor, namely Article 374 of the Criminal Code in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code jo. Article 64 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code.

However, in the criminal decision there was no statement that charged three convicts to compensate for the losses that appeared according to the results of the independent audit of the campus worth Rp. 19.34 billion.