Corruption Saves East Lombok APM Loans, Kejari Sets 2 Suspects

Head of the Intelligence Section of the East Lombok Kejari Lalu Mohamad Rasyidi. (ANTARA/Dhimas B.P.)

NTB - Investigators from the East Lombok District Attorney's Office (Kejari) have named two suspects in the alleged corruption case in the management of the Community Empowerment Trust (APM) funds that are rolling in the community in the form of savings and loan for women groups.

"The suspect who was named in this case has the initials K as the Head of the UPK ( Activity Management Unit) of the Suela and M sub-districts as a companion to the female group," said Head of the Intelligence Section of the East Lombok Kejari Lalu Mohamad Rasyidi when contacted Tuesday, February 6, confiscated by Antara.

He explained that investigators named both of them as suspects based on the results of the case at the East Lombok Kejari Office on Monday, February 5 afternoon

"Both of them we named as suspects based on the results of the case on Monday (February 5) yesterday which found at least two pieces of evidence," he said.

One of the pieces of evidence that strengthens the determination of suspects is related to the results of the audit of state financial losses from the East Lombok Inspectorate. The value of the loss obtained by the auditor is around Rp567 million.

Rasyidi explained that this loss arose from the search for savings and borrowing for the 2015 to 2018 period for 23 women groups in Kelangga Village, Suela District, East Lombok Regency.

"So, the savings and loan money for these 23 groups of women is used by suspect M for personal gain," he said.

The suspect M's mode of enjoying the savings and loan funds began with the initiative to form 23 women's groups by requesting a copy of the resident's ID card as a condition for the completeness of the application.

However, during the disbursement, the funds were not directly handed over to the recipients, but suspect K as chairman of UPK handed over the funds to suspect M.

"Essentially, there is the actions of the two suspects in the management of this girl group fund that does not follow the rules of the game, the SOP is violated," he said.

By finding these criminal indications, investigators named both of them as suspects by applying the allegations of Article 2 paragraph (1) and/or Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code.

Rasyidi said that investigators had not yet detained the two suspects. "Not yet, it's just been determined," he said.