5 Commissioners Of KPU Aru Maluku Detained For Corruption Cases

DOC BETWEEN HO

AMBON - The Aru District Attorney's Office, Maluku has detained five commissioners of the Aru Regency KPU for the 2020 regional election grant corruption case.

"The detention of the five suspects was carried out by the Prosecutor's Office Aru team after receiving the second stage (P-21) handover from the Aru Police Satrekrim investigators," said Acting Head of Penkum and Public Relations of the Maluku Attorney General's Office, Aizit P. Latuconsina in Ambon as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, January 17.

Five commissioners of the Aru Islands Regency KPU who were named suspects included MD as the Chair of the KPU along with its four members.

According to him, the process of submitting files and suspects along with evidence took place at the Maluku High Prosecutor's Office.

The Public Prosecutor's Team of the Attorney General's Office Aru was led by Fauzan Arif Nasution as Head of Special Investigation Unit with functional prosecutor Nicholas AL Simanjuntak.

Four of the suspects have been deposited in the Waiheru State Detention Center (Rutan) Ambon, while another suspect with the initials TJP has been deposited in the Ambon Class III Women's Prison for the next 20 days starting from January 17 to February 5, 2024.

"They were detained in a case of alleged corruption in the misuse of grant funds for the Regent and Deputy Regent of the Aru Islands Regency at the General Election Commission of the Aru Islands Regency for Fiscal Year 2020," said Aizit.

The reasons for the defendants being detained were based on objective and subjective reasons regulated in the Criminal Procedure Code.

Furthermore, the public prosecutor's team of the Aru Islands District Attorney's Office in the near future transferred the cases of the five commissioners to the Corruption Court at the Ambon District Court for trial.