BUMDes Treasurer Becomes Suspect Of Corruption In KUR Distribution In Sumbawa

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NTB - The Sumbawa District Attorney (Kejari) has named a suspect in alleged corruption in the distribution of people's business credit funds (KUR) from a state-owned bank with a loss of Rp3.2 billion. "The suspect we determined from the results of the case title with the initials PM, he is the treasurer of BUMDes (Village-Owned Enterprises Agency)," said Head of the Intelligence Section of the Sumbawa Kejari, Zanuar Ikhram by telephone, Monday, December 11, confiscated by Antara. He explained that the role of the PM suspect in this case was as a facilitator who applied for a KUR loan for farmers. The submission runs in the period 2021-2022. "So, there is a farmer's name borrowed by the suspect to apply for KUR funds by offering a fee of Rp. 3.5 million to Rp. 4 million," he said. When borrowing the names of the farmers, the suspect made a letter of agreement stating that he was a borrower in charge of credit bills from the bank. "Farmers agreed with the loan of the name, because the suspect stated that he was ready to take responsibility for all the problems that arose," he said. The corruption problem then arose when the suspect disbursed KUR funds. The bank handed over savings books and ATM cards to the farmers. "After the farmers received it, the suspect took all of them. Farmers were only given a fee for the agreement," he said.

Even though it has gone through a proposal process that is in accordance with the regulations, the disbursement of KUR funds is considered by investigators to be not on target, aka fictitious. The suspect only used the names of farmers as the party who applied for credit. "So, from Rp50 million, the suspect gave varying fees ranging from Rp3.5 million to Rp5 million with a total number of 64 farmers," he said. With a calculation of 64 farmers, a loss figure of IDR 3.2 billion appeared. This value is the result of an internal banking audit. As a suspect, PM is subject to allegations of Article 2 paragraph (1) and / or Article 3 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended by Law no. 20 of 2001 jo. Article 55 paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code. "From this determination, investigators have not made arrests, but the whereabouts of the suspects are still under our supervision," said Zanuar.