Maluku Prosecutor's Office Increases The Status Of BP2P Special House Development Cases To Investigation

Acting Head of Legal Information and Public Relations of the Maluku Prosecutor's Office, Aizit P. Latuconsina. BETWEEN/HO-Kejati Maluku.

JAKARTA - Investigators from the Maluku High Prosecutor's Office have upgraded the status of handling cases of alleged corruption in the 2016 special house construction project budget at the Maluku Housing Provision Implementation Center (BP2P) in West Seram Regency (SBB) and Central Maluku Regency. "The increase in the status of cases from investigation to investigation was carried out by investigators after sufficient preliminary evidence was found," said Plt. Head of the Legal Information and Public Relations Section of the Maluku Attorney General's Office, Aizit P. Latuconsina, in Ambon, Antara, Tuesday, February 6. According to him, sufficient preliminary evidence has occurred an event suspected of being a criminal act of corruption in the construction of a special house at BP2P Maluku in 2016 located in SBB and Malteng Regencies. "After increasing the status of the case to the investigation stage, investigators immediately summoned witnesses to make clear the criminal acts of corruption that occurred and in order to find potential suspects," he said. The 2016 special house construction project is located in SBB Regency with 22 units and in Central Maluku Regency with two units. The project uses funds sourced from the APBN at the DPA Non-Vertical Work Unit (SNVT) for the Provision of Maluku Province Housing, which is currently renamed BP2P Maluku, amounting to Rp6.3 billion. The work is allegedly not completed by PT. Karya Utama according to the contract, so it is suspected that it caused state financial losses.

A number of villages in SBB Regency that receive special house construction allowances for communities affected by conflicts and the construction of security forces in conflict areas include Loki, Iha, Luhu, Lisabata, Elpaputih and several hamlets. Meanwhile, the other two villages are Mamala Village and Morela Village, Leihitu District (Ambon Island), Central Maluku Regency.